CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pragmatics, Qualia, Psycholinguistics
5 Feb 2016
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Broadly interested in cognitive functioning, even when it is erroneous. Methods: laboratory experimentation, statistical analysis, computer cognitive modeling. Broad field of basic research in human internal mental processes. How people psychologically interact with artifacts (human-designed things), such as user interfaces. How our evolutionary history has made our minds what they are. You cant play 20 questions with nature and win. Not enough theory, there are no theoretical psychologist. Cognitive science is possible because psychology won"t innovate to embrace the methods of the other fields. Subject matter: usually big questions, what our concepts mean, otherwise quite broad. Through experiments, conceptual analysis, argumentation, theorizing from evidence from other fields and common sense observations. They don"t pay enough attention to the empirical study. They sometimes think that the existence of a word implies the existence of its intended referent. They are concerned with too many unimportant problems.
