Cognitive Psychology Assignment
The cold morning sleeps like a child as I sit to write a paper on cognition. So what is cognition, as the name indicates studies t cognition. But it’s not as simple as it seems, it like a river which looks as clear as a crystals but has life within. So it’s not wrong to say cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning give us life every day.
Cognition as we know is not a unitary process and it’s not a linear progression. It’s multidirectional and multidimensional. It’s just like an electrical wire where we cannot see the interactions that take place within the wire but we can see the effect when the light is switched on hence we can understand cognition through our behaviour. …show more content…
Physiology spoke about the sophisticated process that take place in the brain and body. It’s studied how information is transferred from one point of the brain to another.
Over a period of time Physiology evolved to psychophysics. Psychophysics is subject to study the relation between the physical stimuli that is presented and the way it’s taken up and perceived and understood by the brain. One of most influential person in this field was Hermann Von Helmholtz. He worked on visual perception claiming that it involved a process of unconscious inference.
Inference is when we come to a conclusion based on some facts. Thus we are constantly making inferences by consolidating information from our surrounding environment as well our previous endeavours. In this when we make inferences which involve perception and interpretation these are usually unconscious process which we are not consciously aware of …show more content…
Basically structuralism studies the structure of the mind. The proponents when coming up with structuralism had assimilated it to be like chemistry where complex chemical process could be broken down to fine molecules. Thus in structuralism which studied experience concluded that it could be broken into three components. They were sensation, feelings and images.
Wundt at this point in time had come up with a scientific method to understand the components of experience called introspection. In introspection the subject is asked to pay keen attention to the experience and analyse every element of it and report it in detail. It asks the subjects to look within and understand experience in a more objective manner. Structuralism was taken to the United States by Edward Titchener and he gave the name
The cold morning sleeps like a child as I sit to write a paper on cognition. So what is cognition, as the name indicates studies t cognition. But it’s not as simple as it seems, it like a river which looks as clear as a crystals but has life within. So it’s not wrong to say cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning give us life every day.
Cognition as we know is not a unitary process and it’s not a linear progression. It’s multidirectional and multidimensional. It’s just like an electrical wire where we cannot see the interactions that take place within the wire but we can see the effect when the light is switched on hence we can understand cognition through our behaviour. …show more content…
Physiology spoke about the sophisticated process that take place in the brain and body. It’s studied how information is transferred from one point of the brain to another.
Over a period of time Physiology evolved to psychophysics. Psychophysics is subject to study the relation between the physical stimuli that is presented and the way it’s taken up and perceived and understood by the brain. One of most influential person in this field was Hermann Von Helmholtz. He worked on visual perception claiming that it involved a process of unconscious inference.
Inference is when we come to a conclusion based on some facts. Thus we are constantly making inferences by consolidating information from our surrounding environment as well our previous endeavours. In this when we make inferences which involve perception and interpretation these are usually unconscious process which we are not consciously aware of …show more content…
Basically structuralism studies the structure of the mind. The proponents when coming up with structuralism had assimilated it to be like chemistry where complex chemical process could be broken down to fine molecules. Thus in structuralism which studied experience concluded that it could be broken into three components. They were sensation, feelings and images.
Wundt at this point in time had come up with a scientific method to understand the components of experience called introspection. In introspection the subject is asked to pay keen attention to the experience and analyse every element of it and report it in detail. It asks the subjects to look within and understand experience in a more objective manner. Structuralism was taken to the United States by Edward Titchener and he gave the name