PSYCH 2H03 Lecture 3: chapter1
21 Jun 2017
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This field is sometimes defined as the scientific study of the acquisition, retention, and use of knowledge. Our understanding of stories or ordinary conversations depends on memory depends on our drawing key bits of information from our storehouse of knowledge. Cognitive psychology had an enormous impact many speak of the cognitive revolution within psychology (1950"s and o o o. The years of introspection o o o o o o o. Wilhelm wundt and his student bradford launched the new enterprise of research psychology, defining their field for the first time as an endeavor separate of research psychology. They believed the only person who can experience or observe your thoughts is you. The only way to study thoughts is for each of us to introspect, or look within , to observe and record the content of our own mental lives, and the sequence of our own experiences. Introspection was not a casual activity but trained.
