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Cydney Welch
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One important contribution to the development of the field of cognitive psychology is information processing. Information processing is a cognitive psychology theory that studies mental processes involved in acquiring, storing and using knowledge. Information processing focuses on the flow of information as it is passed from one stage to another within a person’s mind (verywellmind.com and Cuncic, A.) Information processing theory contributes to our understanding of how cognitive processes operate and interact and has influenced research in areas such as memory, language, decision-making and problem-solving.
Another important contribution to the development of the field of cognitive psychology is cognitive revolution. In research found in 1974, W.N. Dember described as what he referred to as cognitive revolution in psychology in general and clinical psychology (Dember, 1974; ScienceDirect; 2001). Cognitive revolution emphasizes the importance of understanding how individuals perceive, process, store and retrieve information that lead to the emergence of cognitive psychology. Psychologists offered cognitive theories of emotional functioning that emphasizes the interaction of cognition and emotion in understanding human behavior (Bower, 1981; Oatley and Johnson-Laird, 1987).
In discussing Mackintosh and the article I read that Mackintosh believes that “all behavior is a choice”. Mackintosh argues that when deciding whether to respond or not animals choice cannot always be describe by some role of choice. Mackintosh also divided associative learning stance and behavior analysis may not be determined by differences in their subject matters. That behavior analysis and associative learning tradition is a challenge to create interaction between the two theoretical stances in animal learning. For me, I agree and disagree for I believe the mind of humans and animals is a different thought process for living in two different types of environments.
Verywellmind.com
Goldstein, E. (2019). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and EVeryday Experience – Fifth Edition – Cengage Learning
Ramos De Jesus Pereira, M. (2016). Human experimental psychology and learning theory: A critical review. Journal of Social & Psychological Sciences, 9(2). 26-32Zakia Williams
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Memory allows you to memorize things that happened yesterday or as far back as your childhood. Reading suggests that Sensory memory holds incoming information for a fraction of a second and then passes most of this information to short-term memory, which has limited capacity and holds information for seconds (like an address you are trying to remember until you can write it down). The curved arrow represents the process of rehearsal, which occurs when we repeat something, like a phone number, to keep from forgetting it. (Goldstein, 5th ed).
Grammer and language also contribute to the brain to help form complete words and thoughts. We learn from youth how to form words into complete sentences. Grammer is important as it teaches you how to form sentences for your audience for a clear understanding of delivery.
Mackintosh takes the position that perceptual learning is primarily responsible for improving stimulus discrimination, and that this factor facilitates learning process and subsequent behavioral changes and adjustments to stimuli. Mackintosh (1997) argued that mental activity and human behavior is far too complex to be understood in terms of highly reductionist behavioral experiments. I would agree that behaviors are taught by other actions. This speaks to the term, if you know better, do better” (Maya Angelou). I would not necessarily say that all behavior is by choice because some could be gene related. Peoples action is not always that of what they see but rather activated within their genes and how they were raised.
Goldstein, E. B. Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research, and everyday experience, 5th ed.. Cengage US.
Mackintosh, N. J. (1997). Has the wheel turned full circle? Fifty years of learning theory, 1946–1996. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Section A, 50(4), 879-898.