PSYB57H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Textbook
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Cognitive psychology: how people acquire, store, transform, use, and communicate information. Nativism certain skills and abilities are hardwired into the brain: we have innate beliefs (the mind is born with ideas/knowledge) www. notesolution. com. Chapter 1: short-term memory is a hard-wired function that is attributed to innate structures of the human mind. Is not learned, formed, or created as a result of experience: we are a machine. Structuralism: wilhelm wundt set up the first institute for research in experimental psychology. Introspection soul searching : describing one"s own conscious experiences, conscious thought is a result of a combination of sensations: duration: structuralism focus on the mind is the elemental components as opposed to why the mind works the way it does. Functionalism: william james did very little research, and focused on psychological findings and relevance to everyday life, psychology is the explanation of our experiences www. notesolution. com. Gestalt psychology: max wertheimer, kurt koffka, wolfgang kohler.
