PSY504 Cognitive Psychology
PSY504 Cognitive Psychology https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kc42KLVUvCvoqODVaH-DF1qEejYXON5u?usp=sharing Cognitive Psycholo gy Cognitive Psychology deals with cognition. Cognition can be understood as “thinking” or “knowing.” We can say, in other words, that cognitive psychology deals with the processes involved in thinking, gaining and storage of knowledge. For this purpose it adopts an information processing approach. Historical Background Plato, the great Greek philosopher , the founder of all modern sciences was the first person to present a clear theory of how knowledge is acquired and retained. His main ideas of contribution · Ideas are innate (thinking capacity of humans ) · Visible world is an illusion (shadow of reality which is in our mind ) · ...