PSYC 2000 Lecture : Psychology Notes History
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Psychology in action: results from psychological research have given us a lot of tools to improve studying and learning, many of these are presented in the first section of the textbook. 3 fundamental facts about learning from 70 years of cognitive psychology: cognitive- studying of the human mind, 1. It takes knowledge to learn knowledge: 3. The more you know, the easier it is to learn: learning and memory, stages of skill acquisition- we go through three stages of learning. We become more efficient at the component processes: 2. If you keep practicing you become more efficient at sequencing these different processes: 3. What is psychology: definition: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, 1. behavior- any action, 2. Metal processes- perceptions, thoughts, feelings: latent constructs- unobservable- something you cant directly see. Goals of psychology: describe, explain, predict, control.
