PS260 Lecture Notes - Baby Talk, Lexical Decision Task, Availability Heuristic
Document Summary
Initially we tried to find only objective things about human thought, but it doesn"t really reflect what it means to be human. Cognitive science: interdisciplinary effort to understand the mind. Unconscious inference: perceiver plays an interpretive role in experiences, perception is not a passive process, perceptual and cognitive experience altered by previous experience, these processes often occur outside of conscious awareness. Psychophysics, study of sensation and perception, unconscious inference, much of what we understand about the world is unconscious, first initial stages of receiving and perceiving information. The perceiver plays an interpretive role in understanding the world. Cognitive and perceptual processes often occur outside of perceptual awareness. Structuralism: contents of mental experience, all conscious experiences can be broken down into basic mental elements: sensations, feelings, images. Based on introspection, and reporting one"s own experience. Experience is colored by perception; it is not observable or objective.
