PSYC2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, Neuroimaging, Facial Recognition System
27 Dec 2018
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Cognitive psychology: the internal process involved in making sense of the environment, and deciding what action might be appropriate (attention, perception, learning, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and thinking) Because mental processes are internal processes, they are not directly observable. Cognitive psychology draws on many other disciplines to provide metaphors and methods for measuring these unobservable processes. Frameworks / metaphors that help us understand the process of cognitive psychology. 1950"s - 80"s (+): information processing (emerged from wwii) Computer metaphor: the mind is a symbol processing system. Like a computer, the brain uses symbols to represent things in the world. Information processing: acquisition, storage and manipulation of symbols to meet task demands. This information-processing approach viewed the mind as a general-purpose, symbol-processing system of limited capacity. Four approaches to human cognition (experimental cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive neuropsychology, and computational cognitive science) Neural metaphor: the mind is a network of interconnected processing units (neurons)
