Cognitive Psychology - IBP Year 1 - Workgroup notes
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Chapter 1:- Cognitive psychology: the study of fundamental cognitive processes, such as: perception, attention, memory, language, etc.- Initially it was thought that each process had a specific place in the brain. This was founded to be untrue, though it is true that some processes have localised areas in the brain, though it always works together with other regions.- Cognitive psychology is different from Cognitive science because: --> It works with levels of analysis instead iof the study of processes --> It works more simulations- William James was the first cognitive psychologist -> we need to limit ourselves to observable events. The problem is that we do not learn much other than stimulus and response. Thus, we need to take cognitive processes into account.- The computer analogy: the human brain is an information processing device. There is an input, which then starts processing, resulting into an output.- Donders, end of 19th century: mental chronometry, aka the first response time experiment - Bottom up processing: all information comes from the stimulusTop-down: a concept in our brain influences the way we process information- The big question is: what is consciousness and why does is exist? Cognitive psychologists are materialists -> all that happens in the brain happens through material systems.Chapter 2:- Kant:...
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