PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ulric Neisser, Immanuel Kant, Edward B. Titchener
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Scienti c study of knowledge - scienti c study of acquisition, retention, & use of knowledge ! Huge range of our actions, thoughts, feelings depend on knowledge! Ability to understand or construe the world around us ! Interpretation of encounters with world depend on your supplementing personal experience with knowledge ! Ulric neisser published rst textbook of cognition! Wundt & titchener - commenced research psychology to separate from philosophy & biology ! Introduced introspection: to observe within oneself & record the content of own mental lives. Introspection disintegrated as you cannot measure introspection objectively (perspective events) & cannot tell us about unconscious events ! Psych needs objective data - measurable, recordable, physical events! Can repetitively record behaviour - learning history recorded! Behaviour failed as cannot explain how people understand/interpret situation that are shown in the way they feel or act ! Salt example - what the stimuli means to you evokes different potential responses!
