Writing about Cognitive Psychology Breakdown
Use the slides and material covered in class to describe what the topic is for the week (for this week – cognitive psychology).
Description of how research is typically conducted in this field.
Discuss, briefly, some of the types of research methods we discussed – methods can include those in the PowerPoint, other studies discussed in class, or any other source of methodology in the topic area you know about.
Examination of how the article applies this methodology to produce their findings (must use APA style to cite article at least one time).
Discuss the method section of the research to answer the question
Cognitive Psychology
The psychological study of how people think, know, and process information
Founded by Ulrich Neisser in 1967, but has roots back into the 1940s and 50s (magic number)
His book encouraged the psychological community to study perception, pattern recognition, attention, problem solving, and remembering
Wanted a perspective deeper than behaviorism (Pavlov/Skinner)
Behaviorists believe there are no processes between stimulus and response
Classical Conditioning
Cognitive psychology addresses the “black box” in human behavior
Overall findings: negative stimuli can decrease detailed memory, where arousing stimuli can enhance memory of details
