Media, Information and Technoculture 3000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Dissonance, Infor
20 Dec 2016
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Mit 3000 - designing & critiquing research methods. Questions how can we be sure and how we can learn to be sure. Critical in an evaluative sense: important in analyzing the many ways we obtain information. Author suggests there are 3 particular methods. We learn/know by doing, living, observing, listening, trial and error. Means memory essentially, we remember what happened before and apply it to the present. Experience leads to abstraction (generalization), pattern recognition (regularities) A large portion of knowledge derives from abstraction. Question if experience can be misleading re knowledge, it could because making an assumption about a certain situation always having the same outcome is not applicable as things could turn out differently depending on independent factors. Experiences are substantial and non-universal, there is always different variables involved. False attribution of causes (superstition), believing the same one faulty experience will always end in the same way. Association of cause & effect that are unrelated in reality.
