PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Logic Theorist, Edward Thorndike, Distributed Computing
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Concerned with how people think and learn, remember (and forget), speak, read, write, pay attention, solve problems, make decisions etc. Cognitive psychology shares common interests with other areas of psychology and vice versa. Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. The first definition reflects the central role in determining our various mental abilities. Cognition is the mental processes such as perception attention, memory, and so on, that. It also indicates different types of cognition are what the mind does. The second definition reflects the mind"s importance for functioning and survival, and also provides the beginning of a description of how the mind achieves these ends. It also indicates something about how the mind operates and its functions. All the cognition in the first definition play important roles in acting to achieve goals.