Psychology 2135A/B Lecture 12: Cognitive psych - full year course notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Computational complexity: there are always many possibilities, objects, memories, perceptions, etc. but only a few of them are relevant, satificing : cognition that solves the problem usually, but not always the optimal solution. History: behaviorism, psychoanalysis, nativism & empiricism, gestalt psychology, structuralism, functionalism, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive revolution. John locke: william james, wilhem wundt, edward titchener, edward thorndike. Neuroscience and education myths and messages: suggested people in the education field tend to lag behind in their learning and understanding. What does the brain do: cognition is one of the things that the brain does. Just like protein metabolism is one of the things that the liver does: the brain is an information processor, sensory information from the outside world. Information is then relayed to the secondary auditory cortex: damage to these areas typically results in difficulty with auditory processing, cognitive flexibility. Wisconsin card sorting test cards differ in (cid:523)hypothesis testing(cid:524).