PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Immanuel Kant, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Folk psychology: an umbrella term for various assumptions and theories based on the everyday behavior of ourselves and others. Cognitive psychology: the scientific study of how the mind works. Pre-20 th century cognitive psychology: aristotle. How do you classify objects into groups; how do we decide which objects are grouped together: descartes. What is the relationship between mind and body; scientific question of whether our brain is different from our consciousness: locke. How much do environmental and genetic influences affect perception: ebbinghaus. Introspection: introspection: observing your own thoughts, problems with introspection: Impossible to test objectively: behaviorism overcame the limitations posed by introspection. Focused on observable behaviors: behaviorism uncovered principles of how behavior changes in response to stimuli, such as rewards and punishments, problems with behaviorism: Cognitive revolution: from introspection and behaviorism, experimental psychologists learned that: Introspective methods for studying mental events aren"t scientific. However, we need to study mental events in order to understand behavior: transcendental method of immanuel kant.
