COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Scientific Revolution, Lodestone, Fallacy
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It"s a general term to describe the sciences that study cognition. Split into 3 divisions (psychology, philosophy and neuroscience) (generic nominalism) Cognition is those a set of processes by which humans beings take in information, store and transform information, and then apply that information in their behaviour. Psychology comes into play as it is the part which studies the behaviour. Neuroscience comes into play as it it the part which studies the brain. You cannot use one discipline to study cognition. The behaviour(psychology) he practices will actually have an effect on his brain (neuroscience) A generic term to group together the different strands of cogsci. A cognitive scientist collects insights from the different strands to develop a better understanding. The problem with this is that it"s unstable because of the lack of significance and it will dissolve into generic novelism. If the different strands begin to change to quickly or rapidly it must be managed.
