PSYC 2700- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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The term cognition refers to all the processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation. Such terms as sensation, perception, imagery, retention, recall, problem-solving, and thinking, among many others, refer to hypothetical stages or aspects of cognition. Plato, aristotle, descartes, locke, huma, and kant thought a lot about how people think and memorize. Their ideas about the mind were vastly different but they all agreed that it was something important to study: all thought that ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) was solel(cid:455) a(cid:271)out (cid:862)thinking(cid:863) In the early days of psychology people began to use the scientific method on people (cid:1005)6(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s. Fechner: understand how we react to physical stimulation and how it is represented psychologically, ex. What happens if they must choose: ex.
