Question

1. a) What are the basic assumptions of the information-processing approach?

b) What is chunking, and why is it so important? How does it relate to other cognitive processes, such as attention, perception, and decision-making?

c) To which extent can memory be compared to a recording camera? Are memories that reliable?

d) What is cognitive psychology, and how does it relate to the larger field of cognitive science?

  e) What were the historical core events that resulted in the birth and rise of cognitive psychology?

Please answer each of the part of above question and quality matters a lot. Please write professionally and don't plagiarise from anywhere. Please write the answer to the point and on your own only as precisely; the point here is answering each part of the question not just elaborating on each question. Basically, answer the question straight away rather than writing a whole big paper on each question.

Answer 1

a. The information processing is a cognitive approach. It is related to collecting the information from the environment and processes it through processing systems like attention, perception, and systematically encoding the information to form the memory. The information processing system act like a computer where the data (information is input) is entered and processed (encoded ) and one can get an output.

b. Chunking in the cognitive process is referred to as the breaking of long information into units or chunks that can be stored in the short term memory. It allows storing 5-10 items to be recalled in the memory and if one tries to put in more items it would drop out the older memories to be replaced by the new memory. It makes remembering easier.

Chunking is related to the cognitive process as the chunking breaks the bigger information into smaller groups retrieving becomes easier. According to Chase and Simon, the short term memory is serial and it is limited to 7 plus and minus 2. When an individual collects information by paying more attention, practice, and study a larger number of a chunk can be stored. The eye receives visuals information and converts it into electric neural activity and stored in the brain. This stored information is used by the brain in attention, perception, and problem solving as it gets the cue from the stored memory.

3. The camera is a manmade device it would work up to the way it is designed to work. The human memory has the process where the memory from the short term is transferred to long term memory in the hippocampus of the brain and from there it can be retrieved at any given time.

Like Camera, the memory also stores the events with visual attention. That is the reason older people still remember the events of their childhood vividly.

The camera captures what we humans want it to capture through the lens like a human eye, it can be stored for a longer period and retrieved what was stored. While going through the images and events captured in the camera we can visualize more because of events stored in our memory is more than the camera.

4. Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human cognition that is attention, perception, language, remembering, and problem-solving. Ulric (Dick) Neisser is regarded as the father of cognitive psychology.

In the 1800s and early 1900s, cognitive psychology was studied in context with the psychological problems by Wundt, William James, and Cattell. In the first half of the 20th-century cognitive psychology was declined due to the rise of behaviorism. But behaviorism theory lacked to connect the mental process and complex learning, this lead to a decline of behavioral theory and gave rise to Cognitive Revolution. In the 1960s cognitive psychology became the domain research topic and with the publication by Ulric (Dick) Neisser cognitive psychology was established.