PSYC 2650- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 82 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology can help us to understand capacities relevant to virtually every moment of our lives. Case study: h. m: amnesia patient: memory loss due to unanticipated by-product of surgery performed to control his epilepsy, can remember everything before the surgery perfectly but cannot recall any event that happened afterwards. Impaired his life tremendously: had to relive grief (uncles death) because he would forget every time something happened, did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)ho he (cid:449)as ((cid:449)ithout (cid:373)e(cid:373)or(cid:455) there is (cid:374)o self) Ultric neisser published first textbook in 1967. Cognitive psychology took place in the 1950s and 1960s. Because of the problems with introspection, psychologists abandoned this research tool. An organisms behaviors are observable and can be translated into objective data. You can arrange to record stimuli on a daily basis, and see how behaviors change: thus, o(cid:374)e"s lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g histor(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374) also (cid:271)e o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)el(cid:455) re(cid:272)orded a(cid:374)d s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)all(cid:455) studied. Beliefs, goals, wishes and expectations cannot be objectively recorded.