PS260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sleep Deprivation, Edge Detection, Tachistoscope
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One way that we can define cognitive psychology is as the study of knowledge. However, a much larger range of our thoughts, actions, and feelings depend on knowledge. Understanding a story or conversation depends on knowledge the reader already has. H. m. , a patient with amnesia, provides additional examples of how thoughts, actions, and feelings depend on knowledge. Without the ability to form new memories, h. m. could not grieve for an uncle who had died, always hearing the news as if for the first time. Without memory, there is arguably no sense of self. H. m. had no sense of whether he was honourable or dishonest, industrious or lazy. Wundt and his student titchener began the study of experimental psychology in the late. For the first time, it was a discipline separate from biology and philosophy. Introspection the process through which one looks within to observe and record the contents of one"s own mental life.
