PSYC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Big Bang, Edward B. Titchener
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Oxford english dictionary definition: the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses incorporates a lot of things. Participants task linking processing of the mind and brain to people who are thinking. 1the act of thinking: foundational to most actions and events. 2 the benefits to studying cognition: what affects how we perceive, remember, solve problems, based on the mind- brain connection, can learn how brain damage affects specific mental functions. Demonstrates that diff cognitive activities can be dissociated from one another: his memory is impaired, but other functions are spared. Etc: amnesia, lost his memory 20 years ago, memory as little as his senses. This ex. highlights that cognition can be thought of as a coll of diff abilities: perception, attention, memory, language, decision making. In the real world, perception, attention, memory and decision making rarely occur alone, they all interact.
