PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Edward Thorndike, Wilhelm Wundt, Engineering Psychology
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You do not have to do any extra research, include discussion-what do they results mean, include article review summarize and how it goes with your results. Midterm multiple choice (25%) and short answer (75%). Cognitive psychology is the study of how we think, how we learn things, how we solve problems, how we are creative, speak, read, and remember or forget. Cognitive psychology shares common interests with other areas of psychology and vice versa. Engineering psychology has to do with people-computer interaction. And how do we gain knowledge? (a. k. a. cognitive psychology). When we are born and our soul enters our body, it forgets although it possessed the knowledge previously (a priori truths). Gain knowledge through reasoning and deduction (you have an idea and you go out in the world and test this idea). A posteriori truths (you go out in the world and gain knowledge) trail and error. However, they are still real and are worth studying.
