PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abstraction, Frontal Lobe, Positron Emission Tomography
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The word cognition is derived from the latin word cognoscere, meaning to know or to come to know . Cognition is therefore the activities and processes concerned with the acquisition, storage, retrieval and processing of knowledge. Cognition: activities and processes concerned with the acquisition of knowledge. It is the scientific study of how the mind works. Things which cognitive psychologists may seek to explain. H. m. was a patient who had surgery to fix epileptic surgery. After the surgery, he was unable to form new memories. He could not remember that his uncle was dead and he also had very little sense of himself. As he couldn t remember recent things that he had done, h. m. did not know what kind of person he was. He could have done something terrible but forgotten. This was difficult even if we wanted to detail how to pick up a pen, we could maybe get most of our conscious thoughts about the process.
