PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Franciscus Donders, Cognitive Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt
20 Nov 2018
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What is the mind: cognitive psychology: branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind, many different ways to define the mind . The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking and reasoning. The mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Studying the mind: donder and the first cognitive experiment. Measured reaction time (simple reaction time and choice reaction time) Illustrated that mental responses cannot be measured directly, but must be inferred from behaviour: wundt"s psychology laboratory. Structuralism: our overall experience is determined by combing basic elements of experience called sensations. Wanted to create the periodic table of the mind include all basic sensations involved in creating experience. Analytic introspection: technique in which trained subjects described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli. Watson founds behaviourism: approach to psychology called behaviourism.
