PSYC 215 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ulric Neisser, Kurt Koffka, Paul Broca
14 Mar 2018
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Term first used by ulric neisser in his book cognitive psychology. He says cognition involves all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduces, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used . To reduce the mind down into its most basic elements, like chemists identify the elements of nature ( is - the structure is ____ ) Break down mind and better understand it. Elements of mind = sensations, images (ideas- not directly obtainable from the outside world), affections (emotions) Introspection -- looking inward at pieces of info passing through consciousness. Instead of focusing on the elements of mind themselves, functionalist thinkers interested in role these elements play ( is for -- the mind is. Any hypotheses about internal thoughts and ways of thinking are nothing more than speculation. We can not say anything meaningful about cognition. To understand psychological phenomena as organized, structured wholes. The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
