PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Piggy Bank, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Revolution
19 Mar 2013
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One way that we can define cognitive psychology is as the study of knowledge. However, a much larger range of our thoughts, actions, and feelings depend on knowledge: understanding a story or conversation depends on knowledge the reader already has. Betsy wanted to bring jacob a present. She went to look for her mother. : in order to understand a sentence, we make multiple inferences from our previous knowledge in order for it to make sense. H. m. , a patient with amnesia (inability to learn anything new, to develop new memories), provides additions examples of how thoughts, actions, and feelings depend on knowledge. H. m. had no sense of whether he was honourable or dishonest, industrious or lazy, etc. Scope of cognitive psychology is sued to understand things in our daily lives and how we respond to stimuli. Wundt and his student titchener began the study of experimental psychology in the late 1800s (1879 was basically when psychology was born )
