PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Distributed Cognition, Norm (Social), Attachment Theory

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Social Psychology is based on the fact that a lot of problem solving relies on distributed
cognition
Distributed cognition is the coordination of groups of people together so that they act in
concert in order to accomplish shared goals
What we fail to remember is that most of our problem solving is done w.
Distributed cognition
Many of our problems cannot be solved by individuals
Science requires distributed cognition, as does running a University or an airline
Most of the things we do, we do with distributed cognition
Usually how our individual cognition is participating in distributed
cognition
Long before the Internet networked computers together
Culture networked people together to tap into the power of distributed
cognition
Our individual cognition is so embedded in distributed cognition that we often confuse
individually possessing knowledge with having access to the power and knowledge
stored in distributed cognition
We think we possess knowledge, but we only have the access info to get
distributed cognition to solve of our problems; we confuse these two
This is known as:
Source: Prof. Vervaeke’s Lecture slide 4
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We often feel understand things more deeply than we do
We confuse understanding something with having access to power of
distributed cognition
In one experiment Sloman asked participants if they understood how a bicycle worked
Most participants answered that they did know
Sloman then provided them with the beginning of a diagram of bike that they
needed to finish in order to explain how a bike works
Here are some examples of the picture that participants drew
Source: Prof. Vervaeke’s Lecture slide 10
None of these bikes work
Ppl think they know, but they really don't
They have access to distributed cognition, but confuse this with understanding
how bikes work
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Source: Prof. Vervaeke’s Lecture slide 11
Source: Prof. Vervaeke’s Lecture slide 12
There are many of these type of examples
We continually confuse possessive knowledge, having it in our minds to
actually having access to distributed cognition
We are always solving problems in a distributed cognition fashion
rather than separate individuals
We are so embedded in distributed cognition, that we don't even realized we are
embedded in it we are
That’s what the knowledge of illusion shows:Most of our cognition is happening
in a much more social distributing fashion than we realize
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Social psychology is based on the fact that a lot of problem solving relies on distributed cognition. Distributed cognition is the coordination of groups of people together so that they act in concert in order to accomplish shared goals. What we fail to remember is that most of our problem solving is done w. Many of our problems cannot be solved by individuals. Science requires distributed cognition, as does running a university or an airline. Most of the things we do, we do with distributed cognition. Usually how our individual cognition is participating in distributed cognition. Long before the internet networked computers together. Culture networked people together to tap into the power of distributed cognition. Our individual cognition is so embedded in distributed cognition that we often confuse individually possessing knowledge with having access to the power and knowledge stored in distributed cognition.

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