PSYC1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: General Problem Solver, Ulric Neisser, Claude Shannon
22 Aug 2018
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Lecture 8 - 8/08/18 - memory and cognition. What is cognitive psychology: how we come to know about the world, encode, attention, perception, store, memory, use, decision making, reasoning, uses objective measures to build a science of how the mind works. Cognitive processes in sully: decision making, regulate his emotions, memory, reasoning, attention, perception, how does our ability to make decisions change with experience. Ulric neisser - 1967: cognitive psychology - book, cognoso latin for to know. Using animals in experiments: rats in maze, pigeon in box. Rats freely explore maze - then reward was put down. Rats knew their way around maze, knew how to find shortest route to reward. Claude shannon: studied how messages could be disassembled, transmitted and reconstructed, showed that information" itself could be a fruitful topic of study. Information theory then made its way into psychology: memory as bits of info stored, attention as flow of info through filters.
