PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Wilhelm Wundt, Normative Social Influence, Cognitive Map
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Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning. This definition reflects the minds central role in determining our various mental abilities, which are reflected in the titles of the chapters in this book. The mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. The first definition indicates the different types of cognition- the mental processes such as perception attention, memory, and so on, that are what the mind does. The second definition indicates something about how the mind operates (it creates representations) and its function (it enables us to act and to achieve goals) 1800s believed that it wasn"t possible to study the mind.
