PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Corpus Callosum, Parietal Lobe, Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Psyb57 midterm notes (lectures week 2-7 + chapter 1-6) Lecture 2 the foundations of cognitive psychology. Cognition: (cognoscere: to know" or to come to know"), are the activities and processes concerned with the acquisition, storage, and retrieval and processing of knowledge. Cognitive psychology: is the scientific study of how the mind works. Aristotle- how do we classify objects into groups. Introspection: thinking about own behavior/actions and explaining it. Wundt and his student titchener began the study of experimental psychology in the late 1800s. Problems: not directly observable, impossible to test objectively. It uncovered principles of how behavior changes in response to stimuli such as rewards and punishments. Problems: stimulus-response accounts are not enough and behavior has a mental cause. Cognitive revolution, introspective methods for studying mental events are not scientific. Immanuel kant- transcendental method: work backwards from observations to determine cause mental events in order to understand behavior.