PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Information Processing, Cognitive Dissonance, Engineering Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Changing zeitgeist in physics: physics rejecting mechanism, scientists more participant observers, knowledge is to some degree subjective. Published a one page description of the albino sparrow at the age of 10. Genetic epistemology: process of how we come to know things cognitive development. Schemas: hypothetical structures in cognition, children are active formulators of knowledge, knowledge structures are processed as wholes, and we cannot reduce these wholes into elements. Wa(cid:374)ted to (cid:373)ake sure that prior (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of (cid:449)ords did(cid:374)"t i(cid:374)terfere (cid:449)ith u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g words in a list. Wanted to make sure the memorizer was actually organizing things into wholes schemas. Interested in how the mind organizes our experience. Influenced by gestalt (piaget) innate tendency to organize conscious experience. Follow that pov: organize into wholes or patterns to give coherence to mental experience: behaviourists focus more on passive association s. Cognitive neuroscience: hybrid of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, determine how brain functions give rise to mental activity.