PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, Hal Light Utility Helicopter
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September 8th, 2014: cognitive psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. What is the mind: the mind has multiple definitions pertaining to different contexts or research, the mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning (e. g. Reflects the central role in determining our mental abilities: the mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Reflects the importance for functioning and survival normal functioning vs. non- functioning mind with abnormal functioning (e. g. The mind creates cognition and is important for functioning and survival, telling us what the mind: this is the question that cognitive psychology concerns itself with. Studying the mind: early work in cognitive psychology. Was not possible to study the mind itself because there were ideas that the properties of the mind.
