PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Subvocalization, Short-Term Memory, Memory Span

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

Document Summary

Cognition started as study of what you know; now relationship between what we know and how we think (we make inferences based on what we know in order to understand something think piggy bank example) H. m severe epilepsy so they took out the hippocampus; led to amnesia (no new memories) therefore everything was like hearing or seeing something for the first time. Birth of psychology: wundt and his student tichener studied experimental psych. Late 1800s focusing on conscious mental events. To figure out how we think they came up with introspection: process through which one looks within to observe and record the contents of one"s own mental life, trained to be unbiased with word choice, problems: Much of mental activity is unconscious thus not available to method of introspection. Claims derived from introspection are subjective and not testable (it"s still someone reporting on their own experience) Behaviour cannot be understood only in terms of stimuli and response.