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Define Attention:
Mentally focusing on some stimulus
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Define perception:
Interpreting sensory information to yield meaningful information
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Define pattern recognition
Classifying a stimulus into a known category
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What is memory:
recognizing the shape as something familiar
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Whats the difference between recall and recognition?
- recognition would be that something seems familiar
- where recall is trying to determine where you know that object
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What is the knowledge representation?
It is mental organization of the knowledge you have accumulated in the lifetime
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What is empiricism?
The idea all information is collected from their senses
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What is Nativism?
Essentially, we come with predisposition abilities.
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What is structuralism?
- Brought by Wundt, it identifies the simplest units of the mind
- Using these simple units, you could produce complex phenomena
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Define introspection
It connates: soul searching"
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What are the 4 properties of a conscious thought or idea
- mode (which sense involved)
- quality (such as colour shape texture)
- intensity
- duration
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What is functionalism?
- James was interested in finding why the mind works the way it does
- Does the pursuit of finding function
- Did use Darwanian evolution theory
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What is behaviourism?
- It involves referencing to the unobservable, subjective mental states
- i.e: consciousness, expecting believing, understanding
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What about Gestalt Psychology?
- Started in Germany
- In german for configuration or shape
- rejected structuralism, functionalism and behaviourism
- Focused on people's subjective experience of stimuli and to focus on how people use or impose structure on their experiences
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