Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Immanuel Kant, Cognitive Revolution, Channel (Communications)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

First launched: focused on the scientific study of knowledge now: scientific study of the mind and brain. The broad role of memory: many encounters with the world depend on your supplementing your experience with knowledge that you bring to the situation: helps us understand capacities relevant to virtually every moment of our lives. The cognitive revolution: went through changes leading to a shift in the style of research used by psychologists. The cognitive revolution centered on a small number of key ideas: Science of psychology cannot study the mental world directly. Science of psychology must study the mental world if we are going to understand behaviour: william wundt and titchener: their work led to the modern field of experimental psychology. Introspection could not be causal, they had to be trained. Problem: in order for any science to proceed, there must be some ways to test its claims; otherwise we have no means of separating correct and false.