PSY270H1 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Chapter 1 introduction to cognitive psychology: cognitive psychology. The study of how people perceive, learn, remember and think about information. Philosophical antecedents of psychology: rationalism vs. empiricism: earliest roots of psychology - 2 different approaches to understanding the human mind, philosophy. Seeks to understand the general nature of many aspects of the world, in part through introspection, the examination of inner ideas and experiences (in-ward, within) empirical (observation-based) methods: physiology. Seeks a scientific study of life-sustaining functions in living matter, primarily through: 2 approaches to the study of the mind are. Believes that the route to knowledge is through logical analysis (i. e. contemplation) Believes that we acquire knowledge via empirical evidence obtain evidence through: rationalism, empiricism experience and observations (i. e. experiment/observation) most scientist today synthesize the two use both: contrasting ideas of ratinalism and empiricism became prominent with french rationalist, rene descartes and the british empiricist john locke, descartes.
