PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Piggy Bank, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Revolution
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The word cognition is derived from the latin word cognoscere, meaning to know or to come to know . Cognition is therefore the activities and processes concerned with the acquisition, storage, retrieval and processing of knowledge. It is the scientific study of how the mind works. Cognitive psychology deals with how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information. sternberg (1999: how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information. Cognitive psychology [is] the study of processes underlying mental events solso (2005: study of processes underlying mental events. Not only talking about a passive events, but current and actively involve and ongoing in the brain. Short term memory: it"s when someone tells us something, something we currently have in memory: working memory; memory that"s being work with. When we store it, it becomes long term memory that you can retrieve at different periods of time. Slide 6: things which cognitive psychologists may seek to explain.
