PSYC 213 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ulric Neisser, Edward B. Titchener, Clive Wearing
4 Feb 2018
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Clive(cid:1685)s episodic memory is impaired, but other functions are spared. Cognition is a collection of different abilities/processes: perception: attention, memory. Attention: pay attention to what the person is saying: memory: use your memory of a lecture; try to encode new information. How to study the mind: four major steps. Structuralism and functionalism: determining how to study mental processes; the how and why of experience, behaviorism. Study stimulus-response relationships; ignore mental processes: cognitive psychology, making inferences about mental processes. Thinking about thinking goes back to ancient greece. They studied how human personality and characteristics were linked to mental processes: main players: plato and aristotle, philosophical roots of psychology. First early philosopher to consider the human mind: what did he think, we use logic to understand the world, rationalism: The world is a (cid:1684)reflection of our reality". Knowledge comes from observation but is also a priori. There is an innate nature of our minds. Empiricism: all knowledge come from experience and observation.
