PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Roots, Immanuel Kant, Behaviorism
23 Jan 2017
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When the field of cognitive psychology was first launched it was thought of as. Ability to remember, or to pay attention, or to think through options when making a choice: this led to many questions related to knowledge. There is a common misunderstanding about cognitive psychology and what the scientific study of knowledge: in reality, cognitive psychology, has a much more broader relevance. Huge range of our actions, thoughts, and feelings depend on. Many (and perhaps all) of your encounters with the world depend on your knowledge supplementing your experience with knowledge that you bring to the situation (ex. Betsy and the piggy bank story: this is true, because if you don"t supply the relevant information to stories or conversations you would not understand the connections and assumptions made. The stories and conversations would have to make all the facts clear, instead of using your memory, to make them yourself.
