PSY 341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Classical Conditioning, Forgetting Curve
8 Dec 2016
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Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. Mind: creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning, a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Cognition: the mental processes, such as perception, attention, and memory, that are what the mind does. The question of how the mind achieves what it does is what cognitive psychology is all about. He measured simple reaction time by asking subjects to push a button as rapidly as possible when they saw a light go on. Re(cid:395)ui(cid:396)ed e(cid:454)te(cid:374)si(cid:448)e t(cid:396)ai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts" goal (cid:449)as to des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)e their experience in terms of elementary mental elements. Five-note chord played on the piano, wundt wanted to determine if participants would be able to hear each individual note that made up the chord.
