Cognitive Psychology Introduction

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What is Cognitive Psychology?
It is the study of how the processes in our brain gives rise to our minds
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What is the goal of cognitive psychology?
To describe and explain the mental processes, that mediate our experience of things in the world, and our behaviour
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What is the diagram for cognitive psychology?
It is input, mental processes and output
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What is input?
It is information coming in from the world
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What are the 6 mental processes?
Attention, Memory, Perception, Language, Thinking and reasoning
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What is output?
Our behaviour, things we do, say, think and feel
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What is perception and attention?
How and why we see some things and not others?
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What is memory?
How and why do we remember some things and not others?
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What is language?
Why we say and do the things we do
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What is thinking and reasoning?
Why we make the decisions we do
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