PSYC2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Neuroimaging, Information Processing
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Cognitive processes: cognitive processes concerned with internal processes in making sense of the environment and deciding appropriate action. Issues: - central to all human behaviours and the theories and methods recur in more strands of psychology: mental processes aren"t directly observable other disciplines provide metaphors and methods for measuring it. Frameworks and metaphors in cognitive psychology: 50s to 80s: information processing approach, computer metaphor mind is processing system like a compute symbols represent things in the world. Identifying and investigation how brain regions responds to experimental manipulation and provides insight into brain mechanism. Mind vs brain: construct of beliefs: causes of the allure of neuroscience- information relating to neuroscience increased judged quality of both good and circular interpretations. Important aspects can be investigated at levels that ignore the hardware ie brain. Experimental cognitive psychology: develop theory of cp underlies a task, use behavioural evidence to test theories, but theories often abstract and tests rely on inferences.
