PSYB57H3 Lecture : Memory and Cognition (1).docx
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What did cognitive scientists bring back to psychology that behaviourists removed: the focus of cognition. hardware how everything is structured together (brain) What s the difference between a symbolic model and mathematical model: symbolic: symbols are units fed into the system and manipulated y units can take different forms (letters/words) and then manipulated according to some set of words. trying to find an equation that describes how people perform a certain task. ex: y = x2 c y this equation can be to describe how people read. Defined as: the study of the mind that we can understand well enough to have a computer metaphor. Cognitive revolution: the field hasn t been around for a long time, 1967 is the birthday of cognitive psychology, cherry: attention experiment. you re in a room with a lot of people and you re talking to 1 person. You happen to hear that one person over everyone else talking.
