Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behaviorism, Score Test, Memory Consolidation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Thinking the essence of being: used to solve problems in the mind, visualize solutions, and make decisions. Psychology the study of the mind and mental activity. Cognitive psychology study of information processing and behaviour: attention, perception memory, concepts, thinking. Thinking specific subset of mental activity involving mental representations, planning, and executing behaviours, and coordinating cognitive resources: not mental activities such as basic visual perception, memory consolidation, and coordination of sensory motor activities. Divided up based on content, effort, desired outcome, underlying cognitive function, and function. Intuitive: allow the study of thinking at different levels. Solving a physics problem vs. catching a fly ball in baseball: both require attention, have a measurable outcome, and are essentially physics problems. Differ in what psychological problems are active during execution. Rely on retrieved memories: physics problem requires sustained attention, recall and generation of learned facts, conscious application of facts, explicit monitoring of behaviour.