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| -Principles of Psychology (1890) |
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| Describe the elemental components of consciousness, specifically sensations, images, and feelings. Based on introspection. |
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| what the mind is for, rather than its structural components. |
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| Operant Conditioning (began with the "law of effect") |
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| Mental representations are the essential elements of cognition and that mental processes modify these representations in a series of stages. |
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| Study of human mental processes and their role in thinking, feeling, and behaving. Includes: perception, memory, acquisition, creativity, decision making, and reasoning. |
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| Unobservable internal code for information. |
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| Steps required to form, modify, and use mental representations in a cognitive task |
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| Cognitive operations occur one at a time in series |
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| Cognitive operations occur simultaneously in parallel. (Shiff, you win.) |
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| Design or organization of the mind's information processing components and systems |
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| Set of processes that are automatic, fast, and encapsulated apart from other cognitive systems. |
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| Assume that the mind is built like a digital computer. They assume mental representations are symbols that are serially processed by a set of rules, just as the data in a computer are processed according to the rules specified in its software program. |
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| Simulations of simple neuronlike units arranged in complex networks. |
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| Consciousness; capacity to represent the self mentally in addition to the objects, events, and ideas encountered in the external world. |
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| Capacity to be able to report on mental representations and the processes that operate on them. |
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| Basic capacity for raw sensations, feelings, or subjective experience of any kind. |
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| Regions of the brain that are active when people are left free to reflect on the past or to envision teh future. |
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| Independent variable affects Task A but not Task B, and a different variable affects Task B but not Task A. |
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