that our superior thought processes are what distinguish us from other animals The brain is the organ of the human mind but the connection between the brain and the mind was not always known ID: 919228
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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Slide2Our species is called Homo sapiens, or “human, the wise,” reflecting the general belief
that our
superior thought processes are what distinguish us from other animals. The brain is the organ of the human mind, but the connection between the brain and the mind was not always known. The Greek philosopher Aristotle localized the mind in the heart. He thought the function of the brain was to cool the blood. Cognitive psychology is the science of how the mind is organized to produce intelligent thought and how the mind is realized in the brain.Cognitive psychology has been defined as the psychology of mental processes
Slide3cognitive psychology—
the branch
of psychology concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use, and communicate informationcognitive psychology deals with our mental life: what goes on inside our heads when we perceive, attend, remember, think, categorize, reason, decide, and so forth.The cognitive processes depicted include attention, mentally focusing on some stimulus (the mysterious shape); perception, interpreting sensory information to yield meaningful
information;
and pattern recognition, classifying a stimulus into a known category. In recognizing the shape as something familiar, you no doubt called on memory, the storage facilities and retrieval processes of cognition. All this processing occurred rapidly, probably within a few seconds or less.
Slide4Cognitive psychology can also
been described as the study of understanding and knowing.
A more precise definition of cognitive psychology is that it is the study of the way in which the brain processes information. It concerns the way we take in information from the outside world, how we make sense of that information and what use we make of it. Cognition is thus a rather broad umbrella term, which includes many component processes, and this possibly explains why psychologists have found it so difficult to come up with a simple and unified definition of cognitive psychology.
Slide50BJECTIVESCognitive psychology
History
DevelopmentVarious theoretical perspectiveAttentionPerceptionLearning