PSYCH 120A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt, Body Awareness
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Cognitive psychology - scientific study of knowledge and mental processes. Methodically examined consciousness, thoughts, feelings and perceptions. Cons: thoughts may be unconscious, not a scientific tool. Pros: reliable and objective measurement, many findings are still pertinent today. Cons: we are influenced by internal states such as thoughts, motivations, emotions etc. Use objective observations from behaviorism and focus on mental processes from introspection. Representation: set of objects that stand for another set of objects by virtue of having the same causal relational structure. Something that recreates an object outside in the world but in your mind for mental manipulation/processes. Processes: operations that transform one representation into another. Even if we"ve never seen something before, we can imagine it based on what we already know. E. g. mental rotation: the more the object is rotated, the slower the reaction time for identifying identical objects (linear relationship) Temporal: auditory processing, language comprehension and production. Cell body: contains nucleus and cellular machinery.
