Psychology 2810 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Central Processing Unit, Wilhelm Wundt, Cognitive Revolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2810
• Professor: Huron

Document Summary

Textbook ch 1: cognitive psych: history methods and paradigms. Cognitive psych: the branch of psych concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use and communicate info (deals w/ our mental life) Cognitive resources, mental effort, or concentration devoted to a cognitive process. Perception: interpreting sensory info to yield meaningful description or understand. Pattern recognition: classifying a stimulus into a known category. Memory: the cognitive processes underlying the storage, retention and retrieval of information. Recognition: the retrieval of info in which the processor must decide whether the info presented has been previously presented. Recall: the retrieval of info in which the processor must generate most of the information without aids. Reasoning: cognitive process(es) used in transforming given info, called premises, into conclusions. Reasoning is often seen as a special kind of thinking. Problem solving: the cognitive process(es) used in transforming stated information into a goal state, using specified means of solution. Knowledge representation: the mental depiction, storage, and representation of info.