PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Wilhelm Wundt, Joseph Breuer
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Instructor: dr. christine burton: describe the historical contributions to cognitive psychology. Cognitive psychology is concerned with how people think. And learn, remember (and forget), speak, read, write, pay attention, solve problems, make decisions . We have to observe behaviour to infer thought because much of cognition is unconscious and more complex than it seems. Study of what goes on in the brain that isn"t emotional or social. Only person that emitted himself to be a psychologist. Taught physiology, interested in the mind taught physiological. Observing your thoughts when we are perceiving the world analytic introspection came to n. a and got the name structuralism, b/c it wanted to study the structure of the mind. Replicable observation of our perceptions is analytic introspection. First one to say we can memorize about 7 things at a time. Only published in german so titchener made himself the boss of psychology and put his own spin o wundt"s work.
