PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Little Albert Experiment, Franciscus Donders

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Kristie Dukewich

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology: chapter 1- introduction to cognitive psychology (lecture 1) The frontal cortex is the executive control" that prevents us from stealing in a shop, but it doesn"t stop you from buying too much food. What"s in the mind early work in cognitive psychology: the mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking and reasoning (mental abilities) Dualism the mind and the body are separate entities: the mind is sacred, while the body is a physical thing subject to the law of nature and physics. Consequences of cartesian dualism was that medicine could flourish physiology and everything studying the body was allowed because the mind was the only. In the 1800s not possible for something to study itself (mind studying mind) Franciscus donders (1868 conducted first cognitive lab) how long it takes for a person to make a decision".