PSYC 364 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning
12 Jan 2017
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Cognitive psychology: brand of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision-making. (scientific study of the mind and mental processes. ) Mind: system that creates mental representations of the world and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, deciding, thinking, and reasoning. Cognition: the mental processes, such as perception, attention, and momery, that are what the mind does and how the way that the mind operates by creating representations and its functions, enabling us to act and achive goals. Studying the mind: early work in cognitive psychology: Dunders"s experiment: simple reaction time, choice reaction time. Mental processes cannot be measured directly, but must be inferred from behaviour. Structuralism: our overall experience is determined by combining sensations, which are the basic elements of experience. Wundt wanted to create a periodic table of the mind , which would include all of the basic sensations involved in creating experience.
