Psychology 2135A/B Lecture 2: Lecture 2

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

Document Summary

List the historical approaches that we talked about . Came about from limits of behaviorism and computer metaphor, analyzing internal states. Process of each person looking within, to observe his or her own thoughts and ideas. In the study by meuller and oppenheimer on laptop use, subjects performed worse when taking notes on the laptop because: There is an idea that part of our brain is not being used when we are aware and doing things, it is cognitively the case, we are not aware of all of our cognitive processes. Many educators think that individuals learn better when they receive info in processes. We are unaware of all of the basic cognitive knowledge our brain has. It is a cognitive limitation of awareness, not a physiological one. Things we know to not be accurate, but are commonly held views.