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1. Cognition defini-
tion the mental process or faculty by which knowledge is acquired
2. Examples of
cog- nition Perception, memory, thinking, language, problem solving, attention,
reasoning, etc
3. Empiricism nurture, emphasizes experience and the role of mental associations
4. Nativism nature, emphasizes biological innate hard wired ditterences
5. 5 different schools 1. structuralism
of psychology 2. functionalism
3. behaviorism
4. gestalt
5. Galton
6. Structuralism basic building blocks of consciousness
7. functionalism function of the mind, why the mind works the way it does
8. behaviorism banish reference to unobservables, disdain for subjective introspection
9. Gestalt
psycholo- gy study phenomena in their entirety, perception of total structure- the
whole is greater than the sum of the parts
10. Galton study of individual ditterences, measurement of intelligence
11. Cognitive
Revolu- tion reject behaviorism- scientifically study unobservables
12. Cog revolution:
in the 40's and 1. human factors engineering- person-machine system, limited
50's there were
paral- capacity proces- sors
2. linguistics- language development cannot be explained by
behaviorism
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3. neuroscience-
localization of function
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