PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology, Edward B. Titchener, Wilhelm Wundt
27 Feb 2020
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Everything we do depends on our cognition: what we do / remember / think. Our cognitions contain also failures and limitations. Knowing prior facts allows us to make sense of future events: if we didn"t know certain things, then we are led to make inferences (more room for error) Most of our encounters with the world depend on supplementing our experiencing with knowledge that we bring to the situation: memory is crucial for day to day activities. Clinical amnesia: cases in which someone (because of brain damage) has lost the ability to remember certain materials, provide us insight into understanding what memory is used for. Cp can help us understand capacities relevant to every moment of our lives. Cp field = roughly 50 years old. Problems: some thoughts can be unconscious (introspection a limited tool, no way to reliably test its claims (testability is often unattainable, psychology couldn"t be a science if it relied on this method.
