PSYC-2600 Chapter Notes -Connectionism, Qualia, Random Assignment
26 Jul 2013
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Cognitive psychology: the branch of psychology concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use, and communicate information. Plato and aristotle wrote extensively on the nature of memory. Empiricism knowledge comes from an individual"s own experience (what empirical information people collect from their sense and experiences). Emphasizes constitutional factors over the role of learning in the acquisition of abilities and tendencies. Attribute difference in individuals to original, biologically endowed capacities and abilities. Nativists often suggest that some cognitive functions come built in, as part of our legacy as human beings. Carried out hundreds of studies relying on students highly trained in introspection. Wundt believed that any conscious thought or idea resulted from a combination of sensations that could be defined in terms of exactly four properties: mode (ex. Edward b. titchener, one of his students, applied the term structuralism to convey their focus on the elemental components of the mind rather than why it works the way it does.
