PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brain, Sensory Memory, Mental Chronometry
11 Jan 2017
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The study of the way we represent and process information (the flow through a cognitive. Not just a random flow it activates memory structures (procedural, declarative system). memory, etc ). So processing, formation, and use of these structures which we develop. We can only do so much at a time, though there are limits to what we can process. There are restrictions in the flow of information. Has a big impact on how we perceive and interact with the world. There are two ways to approach cognitive psychology: philosophy: through logic and argumentation, psychology: as an empirical science. Plato (423 bc: ancient greek philosopher and student of socrates, theory of forms: . We do not perceive the real world, but only an image of the real word. So we perceive an image of what is out there. These structures reflect specific representations from the physical world.
