PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism, Histology, Paul Broca
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If i told you there is a pop quiz right now, you would quickly get nervous: we are trying to find out what goes into the thinking process which causes us to have certain behaviors. You can"t study memory: behaviorism psychology is study of behavior. retrieval you either remember something or you don"t, they said that the only things we should study is things we could see. We can"t see the brain or the mind, but we can see behavior. Dark ages since it rejects the study of mind. Multiple processes can happen at the same time, allowing for mental processing to happen faster. You can"t pay attention to everything at the same time: cognition is important for functioning well in the world, variability, there are within-subject differences in cognitive functioning. If you are good with faces, you may not be good with names. If one mental ability is strong, does not mean all of them are equally strong.
