Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auditory Cortex, Inferior Temporal Gyrus, Pulse Oximetry

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Psych 2135 lecture 2: tuesday september 13, 2016. There are always many possibilities, objects, memories, perceptions, etc. but only a few of them are relevant. Satificing (simon, 1957) a good enough solution to cognition. The term introspection refers to the: process of each person looking within, to observe his or her own thought and ideas. Historians often date the founding of scientific psychology to the 1870 laboratory of: wilhelm wundt. In the study by meuller and oppenheimer on laptop use, subjects performed worse when taking notes on the laptop because: they tended to transcribe the lecture verbatim. Myths, or misconceptions can persist because they are difficult to test: multiple intelligences theory and its relation to neuroscience is difficult to test, terminological differences. Our understanding of what attention means is different in regards to other psychologists: dopamine, frontal loves, etc, as metaphors or conceptual frameworks rather than fact.