PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Family Resemblance, Clive Wearing, Pragmatics
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What is cognitive psychology: key cognitive processes, memory, perception and pattern recognition, communication/language (complex lexicon, decision making, the task of a cognitive psychologist, find ways to examine the key mechanisms underlying these complex cognitive processes. Antecedents of cognitive psychology: discussion of mind dates back to aristotle and plato, two philosophical traditions emerged in the 17th 18th century, empiricism. Innate abilities people are born with individ. differences in cognitive abilities. Different schools of cognitive psychology field of cognitive psychology was found in 1979. Gestalt psychology: physiological phenomena cannot be reduced to simple elements, rather studied in their entirety. Individual difference: experiences were perceived as a whole; top down process, focus on holistic aspects of conscious experience, perceptual experience basic elements, primary methodology introspection. Inspired by charles darwin on theories on evolution. Intellectual abilities subject to natural selection and can be inherited.