PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Immanuel Kant, David H. Hubel

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH207
• Professor: Professor

Document Summary

Mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understand through thought, experience, and the senses. Branch of psychology concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use and communicate info. Deals with mental life, goes on inside our heads when we perceive, attend, remember, think, categorize, reason, decide, and so forth. Attention -> mentally focusing on some stimulus. Perception -> interpreting sensory info. to yield meaningful info. Pattern recognition -> classifying stimulus into known category. Memory -> storage facilities and retrieval processes of cognition. Recognition -> retrieval of info. , hence processor must decide whether info. presented has been previously presented. Recall -> retrieval of info. , hence processor must generate most info. without aid. Reasoning -> transforming given info. called premises, into conclusions. Problem solving -> transforming starting info. into goal state, using speci ed means of solution. Knowledge presentation -> mental depiction, storage, and organization of info.