EPTI know to be prepared I need not only to know how Wundt, Ebbinghaus, Bartilett, William James, Chomsky and Piaget influenced Cognitive Sciences and cognitive psychology.
Thats the easy part, is mostly reading about each individual, knowing what they did in the big picture and in the small picture of cognition.
But when i comes to giving a broad difinition of Cognition and cognitive psychology, my answers are ... lame.
Heres where im at.
Cognition: The process of thought, important for a myriad of areas of knowledge, from linguistics to neuro science, cognition is the outstanding quality peoples brain have decodify information received into knowledge compatible with reality.
Cognitive Psychology: The study of how people perceive, remember, think, communicate and solve problems, making use of the scientific method into these studies
Now on to the psychological antecedents of cognitive psychology!
