CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Naturalistic Observation, Cultural Anthropology, Situated Cognition
27 Feb 2016
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Contemporary core fields: psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience (esp. Secondary fields: education, anthropology, subject matter: natural minds, mostly human. Broadly interested: methods: laboratory experimentation, statistical analysis, in cognitive functioning, even when it is erroneous. Broad field of basic research in human internal mental processes: human factors/human-computer interaction (hci) How people psychologically interact with artifacts (human- designed things), such as their interfaces: evolutionary psychology: How our evolutionary history has made our minds what they are: psycholinguistics, comparative psychology. Animal cognition, sometimes comparing it to human. Psychology: critiques: not enough model building, dustbowl empiricism, methodologically limited. You can"t play 20 questions with nature and win. Not enough theory, there are no theoretical psychologists. Cognitive science is possible because psychology won"t innovate to embrace the methods of the other fields: they underestimate the complexity of language. Subject matter: usually big questions, what our concepts mean, otherwise quite broad. Theorizing from evidence from other fields and common sense observations.
