Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stereopsis, Hill Climbing, Capgras Delusion

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

Document Summary

There are always many possibilities, objects, memories, perceptions, etc. but only a few of them are relevant. Satificing : cognition that solves the problem usually, but not always the optimal solution. Historians often date the founding of scientific psychology to the 1879 lab of : John locke: william james, wilhem wundt, edward titchener, edward thorndike. Suggested people in the education field tend to lag behind in their learning and understanding. Myths, or misconceptions can persist because they are difficult to test: multiple intelligences theory and its relation to neuroscience is difficult to test (howard gardner) Readers prefer scientific papers with a picture of the brain and tend to remember information better. Cognition is one of the things that the brain does. Just like protein metabolism is one of the things that the liver does: the brain is an information processor. The study of brain and cognition: how does the brain carry out basic information processing tasks.