PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Little Albert Experiment, Long-Term Memory, Logic Theorist
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Cognitive psychology - psychology concerned with scientific study of the mind. The mind is involved in memory, used as a problem solver, used to make decisions and consider possibilities, associated with normal or abnormal functioning, something that is valuable and should be used, and used to describe intelligence and creativity. Multiple definitions of the mind based on these: Focuses on the mind"s role in mental abilities - the mind creates and controls mental functions like memory, attentions, perception, emotions, language, thinking, reasoning and deciding - different types of cognition. Focuses on how the mind operates and it"s function - the mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Studying the mind - early work in cognitive psychology. 1800s - believed it was impossible to study the mind because the properties of the mind could not be measured.
