Psychology 2135A/B Lecture 2: lecture 2 & 3: brain and cognition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Exams main focus on lecture but there will be textbook questions. List the historical approaches that we talked about: nativism and empiricism structuralism/introspection -- wundt functionalism -- william james. Gestalt approach behaviourism -- skinner & watson -- laws of behaviour information processing cognitive revolution cognitive neuroscience. In the study by mueller and oppenheimer on laptop use, subjects performed worse when taking notes on the laptop because: They were unable to write as quickly as pen and paper note takers. They were distracted by the internet they tended to transcribe the lecture verbatim pen and paper note takers tended to write more information. Neuroscience and education: myths and messages - paul a howard-jones - study teachers who have had post secondary education who have studied learning across many different countries, teachers agree with many of the brain myths aking. "dopamine", "frontal lobes" have specific meanings in the cognitive psych field but they.