PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carl Wernicke, Pseudoscience, Lev Vygotsky
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Cognitive psychology: scientific study of mental processes: create models of how cognition might work and can test the models with computer stimulation, not concerned on where the mental processes occur in the brain. Stroop task: name the colour; don"t read the word: words are processed faster than colours. Method of inquiry - introspection: studying oneself to understand how a person is feeling and what they"re thinking: used for structuralism, for example, a person becomes angry and starts to analyze how/what made them angry. Method of inquiry - behaviourism: the mind is not observable (like behaviour is) and should not be learnt about: considered as the dark ages . Cognitive revolution: rejected the notion that only behaviour should be studied. People involved: james mcclelland (1948 present, david rumelhart (1942 . The edwin smith papyrus (2500 3000 b. c. Sometimes the processes don"t need to go to the brain, but the spinal cord instead.
