PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward B. Titchener, Tabula Rasa, Wilhelm Wundt
14 Jan 2014
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Cognitive psychologists experimentalists that use objective, empirical methods of investigation; skeptical thinkers of philosophy. Cognitive science the scientific study of perception, attention, memory, language, and thinking and of how these processes are implemented in the brain the scientific study of the mind. Interpretation of sentences; the intent of speaker sarcasm or trick question or literal meaning: computational retrieving fact knowledge to determine the answer to the question. Lack-of-knowledge reasoning reasoning done without benefit of complete knowledge about a subject: example: if something was so trivial as a person having only one hand, one would have heard about it. But because he did not know about it, it was probably not true. Prior knowledge influence reasoning or the process of knowing the answer (specific inferences are made even when it is not stated) It is important to note that many important mental processes can occur automatically very rapidly, below the level of conscious awareness.
