PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychophysics, Connectionism

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17 Dec 2017
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Online quizzes every week starting next week. Cognition: cognition derived from latin word cognoscere = to know / to come to know , cognition embodies the activities and processes concerned with the acquisition, storage, retrieval and processing of knowledge. Memory is associated with a lot of the same things too. What do cognitive psychologists study: memory, attention, learning, cognitive development, emotion, language, mental imagery, decision making, perception, neurobiology, concept formation, artificial intelligence, problem solving, animal cognition. Cognitive psychologists will usually specialize in one or more of the above areas, but definitely not all of the areas listed above. The scope of cognitive psychology: betsy wanted to bring jacob a paper. She went to look for her mother. : does this make sense, if we change the structure of the sentence a bit, the sentence can make more sense: Betsy wanted to bring jacob a present. She went to look for her mother: this seems simple but it"s not.

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