PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Noam Chomsky, Little Albert Experiment, Cognitive Psychology
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Cognitive psychology: scientific study of the mind. The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning (mental abilities) Representations of the world to act within it to achieve goals (e. g. healthy mind = normal, nonfunctioning mind = abnormal) Operations and functions (creates representations and enables us to act and to achieve goals) *studying the mind: early work in cognivitive psychology. 1800s: mind can"t be studied bc can"t be measured. Donders (1868): founding of 1st cognitive psychology lab. Reaction time: how long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus. Simple reaction time task: light on push j. Choice reaction time task: left light push j & right light push k. Crt takes longer than srt by 1/10th sec. Crt needs additional time to make a decision (light perceive and decide button press) (srt: light perceive press)
