Instructional movies: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Opening: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

• What you will learn in the 3 semesters of the course

• Historical background to Cognitive Psychology

• What is "Introspection"?

• Behaviorism: Stimuli - Response

• Cognitive Psychology: Stimuli - Cognitive processces - Response

• Basic terms
  > Independet variable, Dependet variable
  > Converging Evidence
  > Tasks
  > Traces of the cognitive process

Illusions in the kindergarten (with Youtube En captions)

• What is an illusion?

• Emmert's law, 1881 (size perception)

• Ponzo illusion, 1913

• Muller-lyer illusion, 1889

Methods for measuring thresholds

• The Hearing test set up

• Methods of measurement
  > Absolute Threshold
  > The method of limits
  > The method of constant stimuli

• Summary: The methods of measurement

• Food for thought:
  > Methods limitations
  > Testing tool limitations

Signal Detection Theory

• What is "Noise"? What is "Signal"?

• Response scenarios
  > Hit
  > Miss
  > False alarm
  > Correct rejection

• D-prime, Beta & the Neural activity diagram

• Examples & Summary

Attention