PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tabula Rasa, Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Mc Colemanand Kleffner

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Interested mainly in an empirical, scientific approach to human memory and thought: the approach this course takes is objective, empirical methods. Cognitive science: the scientific study of perception, attention, memory, language, and thinking, and of how these processes are implemented in the brain in short, the scientific study of the mind. Table 1-1 shows a summary of the intuitive processes: sensory and perceptual, memory and retrieval, comprehension, judgment and decision, computational. Memory: the mental processes of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval; the mental storage system that enables these processes: refers to three different kinds of mental activities: Begi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455)"s histo(cid:396)(cid:455) lies (cid:449)ith wilhel(cid:373) wu(cid:374)dt i(cid:374) leipzig, ge(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:894)1(cid:1012)(cid:1011)(cid:1013)(cid:895), though fou(cid:396) ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) psychologists that pertain to cognitive psychology are wundt, edward titchener, hermann von ebbinghaus, and. Joh(cid:374) b. watso(cid:374) (cid:449)as a(cid:374) ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396)ist a(cid:374)d stau(cid:374)(cid:272)h ad(cid:448)o(cid:272)ato(cid:396) of (cid:862)(cid:374)atu(cid:396)e(cid:863) as the dete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)e(cid:396) of o(cid:374)e"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) 1960 is an approximate date for the emergence of cognitive psychology.