PSY270H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
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Describes the acquisition, storage transformation & use of knowledge. Acquisition: how we perceive & learn from our experiences. Storage: how we represent & maintain knowledge gained from experience. Transformation: how we flexibly retrieve & use knowledge to guide actions. Cognitive psychology: scientific study of how people (& occasionally animals) achieve cognition individual differences. Cognitive psychology is not the study of individual differences. Attempts to explain the general principles that govern human thought rather than explaining what factors cause differences across groups. Cognitive psychologists do use differences caused by neuropathology to test cognitive differences history of cognitive psychology. Early philosophers asked questions about the origins of human thought. The principles of scientific inquiry were first applied in the mid. Structuralism was founded by wilhelm wundt in germany. Inspired by the periodic table in chemistry, wanted to identify elements of thought. Trained students to introspect on & analyze the elements of their thought.
