PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Piggy Bank, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
27 Sep 2015
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Cognitive psychology rst understood as the scienti c study of knowledge. A huge range of our actions, thoughts, and feelings depend on knowledge. Piggy bank sentence: betsy wanted to bring jacob a present. He had no problem remembering events prior to the surgery, but he couldn"t recall things that happened after. No memory of uncle"s death, would be told repeatedly and reaction would be the same. Many (and perhaps all) of your encounters with the world depend on your. H. m = famous patient with amnesia; his memory loss was the unanticipated by-product of the content of our own mental lives and the sequence of our own experiences. There is no way for you to experience my thoughts, or i yours. Only way to study thoughts is for each of us to introspect: look within, to observe and record. Some thoughts are unconscious, meaning introspection was inevitable limited as a research tool. Unconscious thought = huge role in lives.
