PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psych, Cognitive Load
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Lecture 1: some fundamental insights of psychology (sept. 13. 2016) Extrinsic vs. intrinsic intrinsic, virtually, always wins out. Reality is a story, told to us by our brains. Our experiences do not reflect reality itself , but rather a construction or representation of reality. This construction process involves a lot of guesswork filling in gaps. Our brains housed within (and are highly affected by) our bodies. Nested system: the way that we think is connected to how our bodies work. So, reality is a mind-body process of creative story-tell. We don"t live in the real world, but in a constructed world. This construction process involves interpreting patterns of sensory information based on pre- existing patterns stored in the brain & body. There are systematic ways in which we make errors in this construction process; we can therefore improve our own experience greatly. More subtly, this situates our understanding of mind at an interface the connections- between.
