[PSYC 2P20] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (15 pages long!)
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Brief historical context of the development of cognitive psychology. Many different ways to study cognition and related disciplines- interdisciplinary; strengths and weaknesses to each approach. Basic understanding of neuroanatomy and central nervous system. How the brain process external and internal information. The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking and understanding and the act of using those processes. Scientific study of the way the brain processes information, human thought, and. Related to other fields- linguistics, computer science, philosophy, development the mental processes that give rise to behaviour etc. Ie. perception, attention, memory, decision making etc. Scientific study: based on the experimental method, empirical, scientific. Human information processing: people sometimes operate as information processors. Information comes from the environment, something might be done to the information and results in some kind of behaviour. The ability to represent the information of the world. Knowledge of these processes to improve study/teaching methods.
