PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chronometry, Franciscus Donders, Claude Shannon
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Email: name, class info if not back to you in a day email again. Seminar last hour of class, content is repeated two weeks in a row (must attend. Article summaries chose articles, must touch on cognitive psych. Selective attention you cannot take in everything, somethings are being processed over others. Ecological validity how things apply to the real world. Claude shannon wrote the most famous master thesis of all time . Care less about where something happens, looks trying to understand how. Whenever we explain the facts through something that is not directly observable we are formulating a theory: e. g. , an unusually quiet friend is in a bad mood. Knowing that today he has an exam, you conclude the he failed: this is a na ve theory, one of those that any of us might formulate in everyday life. Theories are formulated because of the need to explain and predict events that happen around us, but.