PSYB57H3 Chapter 1: history, methods and paradigms
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Psyb57 chapter 1- cognitive psychology: history, methods and paradigms: cognitive psychology (cp) is concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use and communicate information; deals with mental life. Influences on the study of cognition: several ideas about certain mental abilities date back to at least aristotle and plato, other philosophers involved ini tracing the roots of cognitive psychology were locke, Visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory), quality (colour, shape), intensity and duration: structuralism- focused on the search for the simplest possible mental elements and the laws governing the ways in which they could be combined. Functionalism: james regarded psychology"s mission to be the explanation of our experience, like wundt, james was interested in conscious experience; unlike wundt, james was not interested in the elementary units of consciousness. Current trends in the study of cognition: cognitive science- drawing on research from cognitive psychology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, and anthropology.
