PSYCH207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Factors And Ergonomics, Gestalt Psychology, Jean Piaget
8 Dec 2016
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Cognitive science: about our mental life, how we think, perceive, attend, remember, categorize, decide and so on. Empiricism: knowledge from own experience; supported by locke, hume, berkeley, and mill following aristotle. Mental associations: of two ideas if presented at the same time (by locke). Nativism: role of native ability over role of learning, focused on biological capacities and abilities; supported by descartes and kent following pluto. Structuralism: wilhelm wundt in the 19th century (1879) focused on finding the elements of the brain ( like the periodic table) and then psychologists could determine how these units combined to produce mental phenomenon. James baldwin joined him and experimented on mental development in children and known for his work of jean piaget. Wundt and students used the techniques of introspection, stimulus and recording conscious experiences. Thought that any conscious thought was a combination of sensations that could be defines in terms of four properties: mode, quality, intensity and duration.
