question 6 Flashcards
Describe three ways in which the Cognitive Movement represented a return to ideas prevalent in the early history of Psychology.
In the 1970s there was a deliberate attempt to go back to a type of psychology that included consciousness that was the idea prevalent in the early history of psychology. Three ways in which the cognitive movement represented a return to these ideas were focusing on mental processes, emphasizing internal representations and a scientific approach to mental processes. Early on Wundt emphasized the study of consciousness and introspection and the cognitive movement renewed this emphasis by started to understand mental processes like thinking, perception, memory, and problem-solving. Cognitive psychologists brough back the attention to the internal workings of the mind, coming away from behaviorism and circling back to Wundt’s early ideas. Other early thinkers like Gestalt argued that mental representations and processes, not just stimuli shaped perception. Again, cognitive psychology has circled back to this idea and focused on how using internal representations like cognitive maps and schemas are used to process information. The final way the cognitive movement returned to early historic ideas was the emphasis placed on scientific methods to study mental phenomena. Wundt’s introspection and experimentation is similar to how cognitive psychology used empirical research methods to combine subjective nature of consciousness studies and the necessary objective thoughts of scientific inquiry.
list the three way in which the cognitive movement represented a return to these ideas:
- focuse on mental processess
- emphasizing internal representations
- scientific approach to mental processes
