ROMAISA FAISAL

ROLL # 22
BS PSYCHOLOGY (SEM 4)
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
HISTORY OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
  STUDYING THE MIND
 EARLY WORK IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

1868 1879 1885 1890

Franciscus Donder Wilhelm Wundt Herman Ebbinghaus

He did one of the first
experiments in cognitive
psychology.
His performed an
experiment to
understand how much
time does a person
require to make a
decision by measuring
the reaction time.
He founded the first
laboratory of scientific
psychology.
He introduced a new
approach in psychology
known as Structuralism.
He also founded a
method known as
Analytic Introspection.
He also performed a William James
pioneering experiment
He wrote a book
to study mind like
“Principles of
Donder.
Psychology” in which he
He performed the explained cognition,
experiment to memory, attention,
understand the time perception, thinking,
course of memory and reasoning.
forgetting.

 ABANDONING THE STUDY OF MIND

1913 1938 1948 1957 1959

B.F. Skinner Edward Chance Tolman B.F. Skinner Chomsky

John Watson
B.F. Skinner was a He set the stage for the He wrote a He gave
He criticized Wundt’s behaviorist. reemergence of mind in book “Verbal review on B.F.
Analytic Introspection the study of Behavior” Skinner’s book
and formed new He introduced
psychology. “Verbal
approach in psychology classical
conditioning Tolman was also a Behavior”
known as Behaviorism.
which is based on behaviorist but he used
He also performed an positive and behavior to infer
experiment to study negative mental processes like
behavior known as” reinforcement. cognitive psychologists.
Little Albert Experiment”
  THE REBIRTH OF THE STUDY OF MIND
 INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY OF THE DIGITAL COMPUTER

1954

First commercially
available digital
computer.

 FLOW DIAGRAMS FOR DIGITAL COMPUTER

Flow diagrams of the digital computers were presented.

Input
Input Memory Arithmetic
Output
Processor Unit Unit

 FLOW DIAGRAM FOR THE MIND

1953 1958

Colin Cherry Donald Broadbent

He started studying the He presented the first flow

working of mind after the
invention of the first digital
computer.
He performed the experiment
to see if a number of auditory
messages are presented at
once can a person focus on
just one message?
diagram of the working of
mind.
The purpose of this flow
diagram was to see what
happens in a person’s mind
when he/she directs
attention to one stimulus.
  CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION THEORD
INFORMATION THEORY

1950’s 1956 1956 1967

Newell and Simon George Miller Neisser

John McCarthy
He organized a
conference and the title
of the research project
was artificial intelligence.
The purpose of this
conference was to see if
it is possible to program
computer to mimic the
operation of human
mind.
Newell and Simon
attended the
conference of artificial
intelligence and they
created a program
which they called “the
logic theorist”
He presented his paper He introduced the
called as “The magical term “Cognitive
number 7 plus or minus Psychology’ for the
2” first time.
He explained in his
paper that the humans
can only learn
information to 7 items.

 RESEARCHING THE MIND

 MEMORY CONSOLIDATION

1963 2006

Louis Flexner and Steffan and Coworkers

George Muller and Alfons Coworkers
Pilzecker They also performed
They performed experiments on memory
They performed experiments to see which consolidation with awake
experiments on memory part of physical body is and sleep groups.
consolidation. responsible for
consolidation.
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