Psychology 3950F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tachistoscope, Cognitive Revolution, Unapologetic
6 Dec 2013
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Banished from north american psychology, mainly due to behaviourism. Cognition defined as the action or faculty of knowing . Cognitive processes include: attention, memory, concepts, imagery, problem solving, reasoning, judgment, and language. Phd in psychology from harvard in 1945 in vocal communication. Interested in artificial intelligence: around the time that the computer was being invented, the first attempt at comparing human cognition to the way computers work. With bruner, he created the centre for cognitive studies at harvard. Plans likened to computer programs: higher level (molar) routines called strategies, lover level (molecular) routines called tactics. Input is tested against a standard and if congruous (test passed) the routine is excited. If incongruous (test failed) the routine is run again until congruity achieved. Totes can be combined and nested to create more-complicated totes. Here a failed higher-level initiates two sequential tote subroutines that must be passed or operated before the higher-level question is re-asked.
