PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Flow Diagram, Wilhelm Wundt, Donald Broadbent
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Lecture one, introduction to cognitive psychology, psyc 2060u cognitive psychology, matthew shane, september 13th 2016. Implicit versus explicit processes: each of these cognitive processes can include either implicit or explicit components. Cognition involves: perception, attention, memory, representation of knowledge. Language: problem-solving, reasoning and decision-making, all include hidden processes of which we may not be aware. Structuralism: experience is determined by combining elements of experience called sensations (we sense things in our environment first notion) Analytic introspection: participants trained to describe experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli: ebbinghaus (1885, ebbinghaus"s savings (or forgetting) curve. Taking the percent savings as a measure of the amount remembered, ebbinghaus plotted this against the time interval between initial learning and testing. John watson noted two problems with the ebbinghaus savings: extremely variable results from person to person, results difficult to verify. John watson proposed a new approach called behaviorism. Eliminate the mind as a topic of study.
