[PS260] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 39 pages long Study Guide!
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Views intelligent behaviour within an information processing framework and is characterized by a willingness to develop and evaluate diea about internal mechanisms and procedures that mediate behaviour. All processes by which the sensory input is transferred, reduced, elaborated, stored, and recovered. How people perceive, represent, remember, and use knowledge. Most of what we do, think, and feel is guided by things we already know. Crucial properties of these definitions: representation the knowledge we possess in memory, static structure (almost never changing, dynamic structure (always changing, process an operation on an internal or external stimulus. Mental life explained in terms of 2 basic components: ideas (elements, associations (links between two elements) Franciscus donders (1868: contiguity (same time or space, similarity (alike conceptually, contrast (opposites) Wundt and his student titchener began experimental psychology in late 1800"s. Look within to observe and record content of mental lives. Structuralism find the simplest mental elements and the laws governing the ways they can be combined.
