PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Lexical Semantics, Eleanor Rosch
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Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of the mind. Some components or modules of the system store and maintain mental. In this system, information is carried or encoded by mental representations representations. Other components or modules manipulate mental representations (they changed when they are needed to adapt) The structure of this info- processing system (what the compents are, and how they are organised ) Perceiving, remembering and thinking all involve mental representations. Internarial representations that are about objects, people, events and situations in the world. When we consciously think about something, we many use words or images. But there are ******* 15 min thinking often involves mental representations of situations (mental representations of a situations can be believing that there is ) The ability to attitude mental states to oneself and to others (burtons et al. , Everyday psychological understanding this enables us to recognises that other people have beliefs, intentions, feelings and thoughts that may be different from our own.
