PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Revolution, Behaviorism, Hermann Von Helmholtz
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Cognition is the mental processes that are involved in perception, attention, memory, problem solving, reasoning and making decisions. Cognitive psychology is the study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information . Cognitive psychology refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used (neisser, 1967) Cognition is the backstage activity of our life. The first research began in the 19th century. Germany"s diverse intellectual climate provided the setting for emergence of psychology. Wilhelm wundt launched psychology as an independent discipline, became first psychologist. Franciscus donders: dutch physiologist who performed the first cognitive psychology experiments. Today the phenomenon he studied would be called mental chronometry which is the measure of how long a cognitive process takes. He wanted to know how long it took someone to make a decision and measured it using reaction time.
