PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Distributed Knowledge, Network Theory, Hemispatial Neglect
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The scope of cognitive psychology: actions, thoughts, and feelings depend on knowledge, many/all encounters with world depend on supplementing experience with knowledge that you bring to the situation. H. m; his memory loss unanticipated product of brain surgery intended to control epilepsy, lived > 50 years after. Without a memory there is no self could remember events prior to surgery, unable to recall event that occurred after his operation. Self-concept depends on knowledge (episodic knowledge); our emotional adjustments to the world, rely on our memories. Study thoughts need us to introspect, look within to observe/record content of our own mental lives, sequence of experiences. Introspectors trained: given vocabulary to describe what they observed; report on experiences, with no interpretation. Introspection, study of conscious experiences, tell us nothing about unconscious events. If we rely on introspection as means of studying mental events, we have no way of examining these processes correct assertions from false ones, accurate from fictions - unattainable in introspection.
