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Basic Processes
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 >
-
Max Wertheimer Phi Phenomena
gave
(1910)
Ebbinghaus
S
learning & recall

(three
The
forgetting curve
experiment
lettered nonsense


syllables)

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