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ULRIC NEISSER

Darian Lambert

Updated Dec. 1, 2015

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ULRIC NEISSER

Biography

Born in Kiel, Germany in 1928
Family moved to US in 1933
Taught at Cornell from 1976 to 1983
Taught at Emory University from 1983, went back to Cornell and taught until he retired in 1996
Died in Ithaca, NY in 2012

tHE FATHER OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Education

References

Received his undergrad education at Harvard
Earned a master's from Swarthmore College
Earned his doctorate from Harvard

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/02/ulric-neisser-professor-emeritus-psychology-dies

http://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive.html

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2012/02/er_ulric_neisser_psychology/campus.html

http://www.psychologistworld.com/cognitive/approach.php

http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/blindness.aspx

http://whywereason.com/tag/ulric-neisser/

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbazerman/blindspots-ethics/neisser.html

Overview of cognitive Psychology

Strengths and Limitations

Scientific
Applicable
Combines easily with other approaches

Ignores biology
Experiments have low ecological validity
Introspection is subjective

"I was afraid of girls, poor at sports, and incompetent even in shop. I thought of myself as weird. Maybe I was weird, too."

What is it?
How did it come to be?
Why is Ulric Neisser considered the founder?

Internal processes:

Perception
Attention
Memory
Language
Thinking

Criticisms of the Cognitive Approach

Behaviorists- Skinner
Humanists- Rogers

The Challenger study
The girl with the umbrella (inattentional blindness)
Cognitive Psychology (1967)

Ulric's Work

What do cognitive psychologists study?

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