Фрагменты когнитивной психологии. Бабушкин А.П. - 8 стр.

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thought. Following Neisser’s work, another important event was the beginning of the
journal Cognitive Psychology in 1970.
        More recently a new field, called cognitive science, has emerged which attempts
to integrate research efforts from psychology, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, and
artificial intelligence. This field can be dated from the appearance of the journal
Cognitive Science in 1976. The fields of cognitive psychology and cognitive science
overlap. It is difficult to define precisely the differences, but cognitive science makes
greater use of methods such as computer simulation of cognitive processes and logical
analysis, while cognitive psychology relies heavily on experimental techniques that
grew out of the behaviorist era for studying behavior.


6. Answer the following questions to the text:

   1. When did cognitive psychology, as we know it today, emerge?
   2. What are the tree main influences which account for the modern development of
      cognitive psychology?
   3. Is information theory an abstract way of analyzing the process of information?
   4. What science tries to get computers to behave intelligently?
   5. What did the work of N.Chomsky show?
   6. Since what period has cognitive psychology grown rapidly?
   7. What was a very important event which took place in 1967?
   8. How many chapters did Neisser’s book consist of?
   9. Why may cognitive science be called “an umbrella” combination of different
      subjects?
  10. When did the first issue of the journal Cognitive Science appear?

7. Is it right or false?

    1) Cognitive psychology as a science emerged between 1950 and 1970.
    2) All World War II soldiers suffered from breakdown of attention.
    3) D.Broadbent integrated ideas for human performance with the new ideas of
       information theory.
    4) Information-processing approach made people behave as the most sophisticated
       computers.
    5) The direct influence of computer-based theories on cognitive psychology has
       always been enormous.
    6) The third influence on cognitive psychology is linguistics.
    7) Noam Chomsky worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    8) Cognitive psychology relies heavily on experimental techniques.

9. Discuss the main items of the text in pairs.

10.Retell the text in brief.