PSYC 221 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Forgetting Curve, Logic Theorist, Cognitive Psychology
25 Nov 2015
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Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the study of the mind. It can be defined 2 ways: the mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking and reasoning. This definition indicates something about how the mind operates and its functions it creates representations and enables us to act our and achieve goals. 1800"s people believed it wasn"t possible to study the mind because it wasn"t possible for the mind to study its self and that properties of the mind simply can"t be measured. James wrote a text in 1890"s describing his observations about the operations of his own mind and described a wide range of experiences. Pavlov"s dogs: he used classical conditioning to argue that behaviour can be analyzed without any reference to the mind. Tolman: placed a rat in a maze and let it explore, after an initial period of exploration the rat was placed at.
