15.1 Describe the accomplishments, failures, and ultimate fates of the major schools of thought in psychology.
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15.2 What were the precursors of cognitive psychology?
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15.3 How did the changing Zeitgeist in physics influence cognitive psychology?
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15.4 What were the early signs of a cognitive revolution in psychology?
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15.5 What personal factors motivated Miller and Neisser?
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15.6 In what ways did cognitive psychology differ from behavioral psychology?
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15.7 What does the term “ecological validity” mean?
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15.8 Discuss the shift from clocks to computers as metaphors for the mind.
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15.9 What practical need in World War II led to the development of the modern computer? What was ENIAC?
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15.10 What did the most famous chess match of the twentieth century tell us about the ability of machines to think?
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15.11 How are the Turing Test and the Chinese Room problem used to examine the proposition that computers can think?
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15.12 Discuss three ways in which cognitive psychology differs from behaviorism.
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15.13 Describe cognitive neuroscience and the techniques used to map the brain.
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15.14 How does cognitive neuroscience relate to earlier attempts to explain brain functioning?
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15.15 What is neuroprosthetics and how does it involve cognitive neuroscience?
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15.16 What are the limitations to the use of introspection in cognitive psychology?
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15.17 In what ways does the current version of the cognitive unconscious differ from the Freudian view of the unconscious?
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15.18 Describe the current view of animal cognition.
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15.19 In
your opinion, are animals capable of cognitive activities, or are we
attributing human functions to them that they do not really possess?
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15.20 How
does evidence favoring the existence of personality in animals support
Darwin’s notion of evolution and the field of evolutionary psychology?
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15.21 Describe what is meant by the terms “embedded cognition” and “cognitive overload.”
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15.22 What is the present status of cognitive psychology?
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15.23 Describe the relationship between evolutionary psychology and cognitive psychology. Which one draws upon the other?
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15.24 In
your opinion, has psychology reached the stage of a unified paradigm
that unites all the different approaches to psychology? Do you think
evolutionary psychology is likely to be the final stage in the fractious
and fragmented history of the field?
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