1. COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: STUDYING THE MIND

Instructor’s Manual

Cognitive Psychology

4 th Edition

• Bruce Goldstein

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Chapter Outline

1. COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: STUDYING THE MIND

• What Is the Mind?

b. Studying the Mind: Early Work in Cognitive Psychology

i. Donders’s Pioneering Experiment: How Long Does It Take to Make a Decision?

ii. Wundt’s Psychology Laboratory: Structuralism and Analytic Introspection

iii. Ebbinghaus’s Memory Experiment: What Is the Time-Course of Forgetting?William James’s Principles of Psychology

2. ABANDONING THE STUDY OF THE MIND

• Watson Founds Behaviorism
• Skinner’s Operant Conditioning
• Setting the Stage for the Reemergence of the Mind in Psychology

3. THE REBIRTH OF THE STUDY OF THE MIND

• Introduction of the Digital Computer
• Flow Diagrams for Computers

ii. Flow Diagrams for the Mind

• Conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Information Theory
• The Cognitive "Revolution" Took a While
• Looking Ahead

4. MODERN RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

a. Following a Trail: How Research Progresses From One Question to Another

• The Role of Models in Cognitive Psychology
• Structural Models

ii. Process Models

5. SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: LEARNING FROM THIS BOOK

TEST YOURSELF 1.1

CogLabs: Simple Detection

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Web Links The History of Cognitive Psychology Chronological history of cognitive psychology organized around schools of thought and famous psychologists.

http://muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/cognitiv.htm

Today in the History of Psychology Searchable historical database organized by date or keywords.

http://www.cwu.edu/~warren/today.html

History of Psychology Calendar Students can click on any day of the year to learn about historical facts related to psychology.

http://www.cwu.edu/~warren/calendar/datepick.html

Encyclopedia of Psychology Interactive encyclopedia of topics related to the history of psychology.

http://www.psychology.org/links/People_and_History/

Classics in the History of Psychology Resource for students interested in the history of psychology.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/

The History of Psychology by Dr. C. George Boeree E-text about the historical and philosophical background of psychology.

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/historyofpsych.html

Cognitive Science Dictionary A site available for those who may be unfamiliar with the many unique terms found in the related fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience.

http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/dictionary.html

Cognitive Science Celebrities Links to numerous discussions about cognitive science as well as writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science.

http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/itc/cogsci.html

A roster and pictures of some of the most famous Cognitive Psychology contributors.

http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Gallery/index.html

Videos History of Cognitive Psychology (via Google Search Story) (Time: 0:35) A quick snapshot video (35 seconds) over the history of cognitive psychology from the Greeks (Plato) to the recent past (Donders, Skinner, and the first computers) to the present (Pinker and brain scanning technology) to the future (wherever that may be). The video could be used as a very quick introduction to chapter 1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PYrem2LpL0 3 / 4

Structuralism v. Functionalism (Time: 5:11) An exploration of Wundt’s Structuralism and Introspection as contrasted to James’s Functionalism (with a little Evolutionary Psychology at the end). Also included are a quiz over the video as well as a transcript of the video.http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/two-early-approaches-functionalism-and- structuralism.html#lesson

Early Reaction Time Research in Psychology (Time: 5:48) Exploring the history of reaction time experiments and different methods and instruments used to measure time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UhQoYBPfpQ

Noam Chomsky v. B. F. Skinner (Time: 58:04) A compilation of short video segments of Chomsky and Skinner and their thoughts on psychology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlyU_M20hMk

Reaction Time Experiment (Time: 2:24) This video shows a possible method to compute reaction times using playing cards (stimuli) and phones (reaction time measuring devices).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ufrEAJDsNs&feature=youtu.be

Apps and/or Software Reaction Test Pro (Free) A simple reaction time App with timing to the millionths of a second.https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reaction-test-pro/id493360516?mt=8%20reaction%20time

Dual Music ($0.99) Though a little different than the experiment of Cherry (1953) cited in the text, the following app allows for simultaneous playing of non-DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected files which can give the listener some insights into the difficulty of processing simultaneous signals from different sources.https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dual-music-listening-background/id658408034?mt=8

PsychGuide (Free) An app designed for psychology students to easily access information about their discipline from history, to jobs, to classic studies.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/psychguide/id440790994?mt=8

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