CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Classical Conditioning, Reductionism, Synesthesia
11 Jun 2016
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Cognitive science specializes in a particular level of explanation: the cognitive level. The cognitive level deals with information and how it is processed. Learning at the sociological level (fijian food taboos): Food taboos for pregnant and lactating women in fiji selectively target the most toxic marine species, e ectively reducing a woman"s chances of sh poisoning by 30% during pregnancy and 60% during breastfeeding (henrich & henrich, 2010) Certain group behaviour phenomena (ie. a group going on strike) are di cult to explain with individual psychology. An individual might notice that after eating a certain type of food, people get sick. This is an example of classical conditioning (learning to associate two previously unrelated stimuli) We need it in addition to the sociological level because some behaviours are not heavily in uenced by their social context (eg. baby face recognition)
