HISTORY, HISTORY, HISTORY cog psych Week 1 reading

What is the main focus of cognitive psychology?

Which cognitive function involves the ability to select and concentrate on certain stimuli while ignoring others?

What role does the mind play in creating representations of the world to enable us to function?

What type of experimental research did Donders and Ebbinghaus conduct?

Which cognitive aspect did Donders' research primarily address?

What was the focus of Ebbinghaus' early experimental research?

Why is it challenging to directly observe the operation of the mind?

Which principle of cognitive psychology emphasizes the need to infer the operation of the mind from measurable indicators?

What was the dominant theoretical approach of the first laboratory of scientific psychology founded by Wundt in 1879?

Which method was one of the major methods used to collect data in the first laboratory of scientific psychology?

Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology concerned largely with studying the mind?

What was the basis of William James' textbook, Principles of Psychology?

Which theoretical approach was founded in reaction to structuralism and the method of analytic introspection in the early 20th century?

Which method did John Watson's behaviorism primarily rely on for its procedures?

Which psychologist's work ensured that behaviorism would dominate psychology in the 1950s?

Who conducted influential research on operant conditioning in the 1930s and 1940s?

What term did Edward Tolman use to describe himself, even though he studied cognitive processes that were outside the mainstream of behaviorism?

What were the events that led to the cognitive revolution in the 1950s?

Who introduced the idea that the mind processes information in stages, like a computer?

What notable developments in cognitive psychology were identified in the decades following Neisser's book?

What was a significant focus of cognitive psychology in the decades following Neisser's book?