PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Capgras Delusion, Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
12 Apr 2020
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Chapter 1 the science of the mind. Cognitive psychology: concerned with how people remember, pay attention, and think. Emerged as a separate discipline in the late 1950s. Actions, thoughts, and feelings depend on your cognition. Clinical amnesia: because of brain damage, someone has lost the ability to remember certain materials. Dominated america for the first half of the 20th century. Uncovered a range of principles concerned with how behaviour changes in response to various stimuli. By the late 1950s, psychologists were convinced that a lot of our behaviour could not be explained in these terms. Basically, the behaviourist perspective demands that we not talk about mental entities such as beliefs, memories, and so on. Rejected introspection, insisting that psychology speak only of mechanisms and processes that are objective. Introspection: the examination or observation of one"s own mental and emotional processes. Cannot inform us about unconscious mental events; and even with conscious events, claims rooted in introspection are often untestable.
