Cognitive
Cognitive Psychology History of
Cognitive Psychology
"A branch of
psychology concerned with 1
. Aristotle and Plateau
how
people acquire store transform, ancient greek philosophers
>
-
, ,
information
"
and wrote
use communicate -
extensively on
memory,
retrieval
-
Ulrich Neisser (1967) -> In 17th and 19th
century,
& philosophers and historians like
Father of
cognitive psychology John Locke and David Hugh
started a debate on what mind is
Cognitive Psychology is the
study of and how it works
how
people percieve ,
learn ,
remember
and about information
think Emperisists Vs Nativists
(Nurture) (Nature)
Process of
↳
information
Memory storing
3
:
for later retrieval and
S
the
foundation
mental
storage system that experience genetic
enables this
process
2
. Structuralism
Cognition Collection of all mental ->
propounded by Wilhelm Wundt
by
:
processes
and activities used in first
percieving, opening psychological lab
remembering thinking
,
and in
germany
in 1879
understand different
understanding it aims to
>
-
structure of mind and how it works
>
- used introspection :
his
graduate
students
(highly trained observers)
were shown different stimuli
and their
report what went on in
.
mind
, Functionalism Conclusion
.
3 :
frequent repitition or
-given by American
Psychologist, rehearsal can fix mental
William James in 1879 associations in
memory
his most contribution
important
- :
Principles of Psychology(book 5
. Behaviourism (1930s -
1960s)
studied functions of mind instead B Watson
the
given by John
>
- -
.
of its (how and idea of mental
parts why does the -
rejected the
mind work ?) representations
functionalists focused
contemporary outwardly behavior
>
- : >
-
on
John and Edward Thorndike used
Dewey 1 >
-
.
·
association
.
4 Associationism (1850s
maybe ·
rewards and
punishment
interested
cheifly in
studying how
>
-
elements of the mind associated 6
. Gestalt School
get
started
with each other in
Germany by
1911 in
>
-
three
german psychologists Wolfgang
has
principles three
>
- :
Kohler ,
Max Wertheimer and Kurt
Contiguity association between
things Koffka
i
:
.
that
together in time main idea :
occur >
-
ii.
Similarity two things that have psychological is best
:
phenomena
similar features to understood when viewed
properties come or as an
be associated
together organised structure whole
Contrast two most famous statement
iii.
things that show polarity
: :
>
-
be associated "The whole
come to
together is
"
greater than the sum
of its parts .
>
- famous associationist :
Herman >
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Max Wertheimer Phi Phenomena
gave
(1910)
Ebbinghaus
S
learning & recall
(three
The
forgetting curve
experiment
lettered nonsense
syllables)