1. Todd Farchione, Ph.D. Tommy Chou, M.A.

2. Questions in Cognitive Psychology How do people manage the flow of information? How do people “decode” and store sensations and perceptions? What’s in the “black box”?

3. Gestalt Psychology Gestalt – German word for “whole” or “configuration” Emphasizes the study of unified patterns or wholes Perception and insight Natural organizations

4. Jean Piaget Sensorimotor Stage (up to 18 months) Preoperational Thinking (18 months – 6 years) Concrete Operations (6 years – 11 years) Formal Operations (11 years and older)

5. Sensation and Perception Perception – organizing and interpreting sensory information (more cognitive) Sensation – unorganized, raw sensory information (more biological) Bottom Up vs. Top Down Processing Bottom Up – starts from the stimulus Top Down – starts with memory and prior experience

7. Memory Recall vs. Recognition Three primary stages of memory Sensory memory Short-term memory Long-term memory Explicit vs. implicit memory

9. California Verbal Learning Test-II (Example) Apple Orange Cat Owl Monkey Sparrow Water Peach Dog Banana Milk Pigeon Hawk Soda Juice Squirrel

10. Thought and Language Thinking Analytical thinking Synthetic thinking Convergent vs. Divergent thinking

11. Problem Solving Solve the anagram: HUSCOGYPLO Algorithms vs. Cognitive Heuristics

12. Language Provides an infinite number of meanings and messages Phonemes Morphemes Syntax Acquisition of language

13. Critiques of Cognitive Psych. Lacks coherence Mechanistic reductionism of the computer model External validity issues