PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Stroboscope, Occipital Lobe, Likelihood Principle
20 Apr 2015
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Cognitive psychology: study of unobservable mental events; i. e. the mind. Creates and controls mental functions perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning. Reflects: mind"s central role in determining various mental abilities. Indicates different types of cognition (mental processes) A system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Reflects: mind"s importance for functioning and survival. Indicates something about how the mind operates and its function. Mind cannot study itself and properties cannot be measured. Nativism vs empiricism: nativist = ideas are innate, empiricist = ideas are learned, descartes compromised the first extended treatment of philosophy of mind and that ideas can be either innate or learned. Interested in determining how long it takes a person to make a decision. Determined by measuring reaction time (how long it takes to respond to a stimulus)
