PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Subvocalization, Memory Span, Cognitive Revolution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Virtually everything that we feel or say, depends on our cognition - what we know, what we remember, and how we think. Cognitive psychology was initially understood as the scientific study of knowledge. A huge range of actions, thoughts and feelings all depend on knowledge in general, our understanding of stories or ordinary conversations depends on memo- ry-depends on our drawing key bits of information from our storehouse of knowledge. H. m. didn"t know himself - without memory, there is no self. Our emotional adjustments rely on our memories. Cognitive psychology may help understand capacities that are relevant to virtually ev- ery waking moment of our lives. The years of introspection in the late 19th century, wundt and titchener believed that psychology needed to be concerned largely with the study of conscious mental events - our feelings, thoughts, perceptions and recollections.