PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Frontal Lobe, Cognitive Neuroscience
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Lecture 1: cognitive psychology/ neuroscience: looking back and looking forward. Scientific study of the processes and products of the human mind. Absorbing (sensation) input into the brain of things that exist in the world. Processing (perception, computations, integration) brain tries to make sense of information, make decisions, access memories, etc. Responding (decisions and action) action/ response/output. The challenge of not being able to observe mental process stumps our ability of understanding the working mind. Importance: cognitive/mental resources are limited, cognition is important for functioning well in the world. Variability: there are within-subject differences in cognitive functioning, there are between-subject differences in cognitive functioning. Flexibility: cognitive abilities often change, for better or worse, with development or dysfunction, many cognitive abilities are malleable, at least to some extent. Structuralism: concerned with taking complex phenomenon and breaking them down into the pieces that make them up. William wundt is considered the creator of structuralism.
