PSY270H1 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 & First Lecture

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5:13 pm y cognitive psychology: branch of psychology concerned with scientific study of the mind y mind: creates and controls mental functions like perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking and reasoning. Early work in cognitive psychology y early ideas about the mind dominated by the belief that it could not be studied y. In 1868 did the first cognitive psychology experiment. The time between is the reaction time y choice rt - simple rt = time to make a decision. Choice rt 1/10 of a second longer than simple rt, so it took 1/10th of a second to make a decision: his experiment showed that mental responses can"t be measured directly, has to be inferred from behaviour. Important experiment in cognitive psychology y hermann ebbinghaus. Savings = [(initial repetitions) - (relearning repetitions)/initial repetitions] x100: savings were greater for short intervals.