PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peanut Butter, Chinese Whispers, Folk Psychology
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The degree we can establish our claims and the confidence behind them for how our cognition works. Science challenges and gets a more accurate representation of our folk cognition cognition = mental processing that result in knowledge get knowledge from this lecture. How do we formulate the study of cognition to scientifically investigate it. Whats the difference btwn philosophical heritage and psychological study of when we attempt to know and how do we actually do it. Traditional definition more to do with thinking, reasoning, remembering, imaging, judging and deciding help to get to know. Epistemology focuses on answering the highlighted question by focusing on folk psychology common sense theories that is inherited from our culture. Information processing is based on ideas comes from & based on idea of communication information (technology) how psychologists will report communication within the brain from one part of the brain to the other. We have ideas about certain meaning of info what does it represent/what.
