PSYC 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Short-Term Memory, Brain Damage
11 Dec 2016
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The study of the way in which the mind processes information. The way we take in, make sense of, and use information from the outside world. The study of the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge. Sensation perception recognition/representation attention/consciousness . Memory/language executive control decision making/problem solving. Attention is important for processing information (awareness information) Chain of events used to make sense of what is going on around us. We need memory to make sense of future events. Executive control includes inhibitory responses, systems, decisions etc. Some cognitive experiments were performed in the lake 1800"s and early 1900"s. Mostly stopped with the popularity of behaviorism around 1920. Problem: only things that we can observe can be experimented (behaviorist approach) Stimulus response; cognitive psychology is what"s between the stimulus and the response. Interest in experimentation, greater precision of measurement, quantification of variable. 1958 was a very important year for cognitive psychology.
