PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Wilhelm Wundt, Franciscus Donders
19 Mar 2016
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No t e b o o k: cognitive psych. Cognitive psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making. In short, cognitive psychology is concerned with the scientific study of mental processes. The challenge of finding ways to make inferences about unobservable mental processes. Mind: the system that creates mental representations of the world and controls mental functions. Cognition: the mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making. Studying the mind: early work in cognitive psychology. In the 1800s, it was believed that it was not possible to study the mind. Reaction time: the time it takes to react to a stimulus. Simple reaction time: responding to the presence or absence of a single stimulus. Choice reaction time: time to respond to one of two or more stimuli.
