Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Secret Chiefs 3, Forgetting Curve, Normative Social Influence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. Because the operation of the mind cannot be observed directly, its operation must be inferred from what we can measure, such as behavior of physiological responding: this is one of the basic principles of cognitive psychology. Cognition the mental processes, such as perception, attention, and memory, that are what the mind does. Studying the mind: early work in cognitive psychology. Donder"s pioneering experiment: how long does it take to make a decision. Reaction time how long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus. Simple reaction time reacting to the presence or absence of a single stimulus (as opposed to having to choose between a number of stimuli before making a response. Choice reaction time time to respond to one of two or more stimuli. Procedure=simple reaction time vs choice reaction time.