PSYC 364 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Connectionism, Jean Piaget, Cognitive Neuroscience

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 364
• Professor: Stephanie Tobin

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Psyc 364 chapter 1 cognition: or mental activity is the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge. Cognitive psychology: has two meanings: 1)it is a synonym for cognition, and so it refers to the variety of mental activities we just listed. 2) sometimes it refers to a particular theoretical approach to psychology. Cognitive approach: a theoretical orientation that emphasizes peoples thought processes and their knowledge. A cognitive explanation of ethnic stereotypes would be emphasize topics such as the influence of these stereotypes on the judgements we make about people from different ethnic groups. Because it occupies a major portion of human psychology. Because the cognitive approach has widespread influence on other areas of psychology, like clinical psychology. Your mind is a piece of equipment, and you use this equipment every minute of every day. A brief history of cognitive psychology traces its origins to greek philosophers and to developments that began in the 19th century.