PSYB57H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Cognitive psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. The mind has multiple definitions pertaining to different contexts or research: the mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning (e. g. Reflects the central role in determining our mental abilities: the mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Reflects the importance for functioning and survival normal functioning vs. non- functioning mind with abnormal functioning (e. g. Normal functioning and the amazing abilities of the mind intelligence or creativity) Overall: the mind creates cognition and is important for functioning and survival, telling us what the mind does but not how it achieves what it does: this is the question that cognitive psychology concerns itself with. Studying the mind: early work in cognitive psychology.
