Origins of Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience

- 19th - early 20th century 

- Studying the mind in terms of its most basic components (structure)

- Introspection - "looking within" to examine one's own mind

- Early 20th century

- Humans are soley a product of their learning experiences

- Studying the mind through observable behaviour rather than subjective states. 

- However, is an overly simplistic explanation

- 1950s: Cognitive Revolution

- Scientific study of the mind and unobservable mental states processes

- The mind as an information processor

- Cognitive theories allow testable hypotheses to be formulated 

- Late 1970s 

- Interdisciplinary approach: cognitive psychology & neuroscience

- Brain structure and function underlying cogntion