PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vitarka, Edward B. Titchener, Clive Wearing
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The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through though, experience and the senses. Studying the process of external and internal mental stimuli. Cognition is kind of link tasks that require processes that are required by the brain. To learn what affects the way we perform mental activities. To learn how cognitive diseases and disorders affect people. We will learn the basic and fundamental principles so we can critique studies. We have to be critical of some of these findings. The link between the mind and the brain. Has less than 30 seconds memory (can be a little as a sentence) Other cognitive facets remain intact: vision, language, personality, etc. These cases are one of the reasons why we study cognition as a set of mental activities. Sana et al. (2013) examined the effects of laptop multitasking on learning. Multitasking group: took notes on laptop and checked 10 things online (weather etc. )
