PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Franciscus Donders, Cognitive Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt
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Cognitive psychology- branch of psychology that is concerned with studying the mind. The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention,memory,emotions,language,deciding,thinking,and reasoning. The mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. It was thought it wasn"t possible for the mind to study itself but donders was the first to come up with a cognitive psychology experiment. Part 1: he measured the simple reaction time which was measuring how long it took for a person to press the button j when he saw the lights go on. Part 2: he measured the choice reaction time which was measuring how long it to decided between pressing j if the left light goes on and k if the right light goes on. He measured the time difference between them, which was.
