PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Revolution, Headache, The Roots
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Amnesia: cases in which someone, because of brain damage, has lost the ability to remember certain material. In a sense without memory there is no self. Scope of cognition = the scientific study of the acquisition, retention and use of knowledge. The science of psychology cannot study the mental world directly. The science of psychology must study the mental world if we are going to understand behaviour. Focus on the study of conscious mental events - feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and recollections. "the only person who can observe your thoughts is you" Only way you can study thoughts is introspect = to look within. Later became less acknowledged because people found out that some thoughts are unconscious. Could not test introspection ; no way of knowing what is right and what is wrong. Different people will have different ways of describing something. A headache to you may not be as severe to someone else.