PSYC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tabula Rasa, Empiricism, Cognitive Psychology
19 Feb 2014
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Process: flow of information: how we get information from external world to our brains (internal) Structure: representation of knowledge: function, how it works. Limits: restrictions in flow: limited in their ability to process info. Philosophy: logic and argumentation: how we represent the world. We must gather data: psychology is a fairly new discipline. It began in the 60s in canada, specifically. Cognitive psychology, not until the 80s: roots in philosophy. Knowledge structures in mind reflect specific representations from the physical world. Theory of forms- how we perceive the world: we don"t perceive the real world, but only an image of the real world, knowledge structures exist in the mind. Allows us to perceive these images: these structures reflect specific representations from the physical world. More active (process) view of mind: mind is a blank slate (tabula rasa, experience is important (not innate)
