Brief History of Cognitive Psychology Psychology 355: Cognitive Psychology Instructor: John Miyamoto 03/27/2018: Lecture 01-2 Note: This Powerpoint presentation may contain macros that I wrote to help me create the slides. The macros aren’t needed to view the slides. You can disable or delete the macros without any change to the presentation.

Who Are We? Instructor: John Miyamoto Office Hours: Tue 2:30 – 3:20, Room 215 Guthrie Research Interests: Judgment, decision making & reasoning, mathematical models of cognition TA: Brianna Yamasaki Office Hours: To-be-determined Research Interests: Bilingualism, working memory/executive attention, and reading skill TA: Roy Seo Office hours: To-be-determined Research Interests: Bilingual language representation and control For individual meetings, contact us by email or in class. Course Website Psych 355, Miyamoto, Spr '18

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Lecture probably ends here Outline What is cognitive psychology? What will we study in Psych 355? Brief History of Cognitive Psychology Ideas from 19th century European experimental psychology Behaviorism and anti-cognitive psychology Why did cognitive psychology undergo a revival from 1960 - today Lecture probably ends here What is Cognitive Psychology? Discuss some example. Psych 355, Miyamoto, Spr ‘18

What is Cognitive Psychology? Cognitive psychology attempts to explain how humans perform cognitive activities. What are cognitive activities? Seeing objects and events in one’s surroundings. Remembering something, e.g., facts, personal experiences, etc. Understanding what is happening in a situation. Communicating through spoken and written language. Learning something new, e.g., how to use a computer, an Ipod, public transportation, introductory statistics, etc. Solving problems. Making decisions. Drawing inferences. Ask class what are examples of cognitive processes. What is Cog Psych (continued)? Psych 355, Miyamoto, Spr '18

What is Cognitive Psychology? (cont.) Theory of human information processing including perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning, learning, development Emphasis on ... ... experimental studies of human information processing (behavioral studies) ... brain activity while humans engage in cognitive processing (cognitive neuroscience) ... models of human information processing (computational modeling) De-emphasis on: motivation, emotion Course Outline Psych 355, Miyamoto, Spr '18

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Example: The Mental Rotation Experiment https://www.psytoolkit.org/experiment-library/mentalrotation.html How long does it take to decide whether two figures are identical (congruent) when one of the figures is rotate relative to the other figure? This is just one example where being a subject in an experiment makes it easier to understand an experimental procedure. Psych 355, Miyamoto, Spr '18

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