PSYCH 3312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Revolution, Wilhelm Wundt, Edward B. Titchener

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3312
• Professor: Rosalee Meyer

Document Summary

5) the cognitive revolution in the 1950s and 1960s occurred when the study of mental processes surpassed behaviorism (which was opposed to the study of consciousness and mental processes). Cognitive psychology: describes a subject matter and a point of view/philosophy related to how one studies the subject matter. Mental processes: include memory, perceptual processes, pattern recognition, attention, imagery, language comprehension and production, thinking, creativity, problem solving, decision making, and logical reasoning. Cognitive psychology as a point of view: a set of beliefs about how the topics above should be studied. Behaviorism: the belief that behavior could be understood by determining the external stimulus conditions that brought it about, not worrying about internal mental processes. Subjective report: having the subject record what he/she is thinking. These reports cannot be verified by anyone else, so cannot be used as evidence. Wundt made the 1st psych lab in 1879 in germany. He and his followers can be considered the 1st cognitive psychologists.