PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Almost Surely, Habituation, Inductive Reasoning
7 May 2012
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Trlecture 7 psy 210 access code: wcp hkw wso. Cognition: mental activity through which human beings acquire and process knowledge. Mental processes such as perception, attention, learning, memory and reasoning. Interested in epistemology, wanted to study it scientifically. First love was biology, but became fascinated with branch of philosophy known as epistemology. Worked with alfred binet in france on development of standardized iq tests. Career was launched thanks to his keen power of observation. Made thousands of observations in the views of development. Children of different ages got different types of questions wrong. Look at the way children reason about things to understand development of cognitions. Observations so robust that you can form the tests again to see interesting patterns of reasoning in children. Used to tell what stages of development child was in. Curious human beings just trying to work out how the world works around them.
