PS260 Lecture Notes - Psychophysics, Gestalt Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Philosophy (fundamental questions that define the field) Neuroscience (specify relationship between mind and brain. Artificial intelligence (models human thought processes with computer software and hardware) Linguistics (the structure of language and the specifics of language use and what they tell us about the mind) Anthropology (investigates the mind through the lens of culture) Unconscious inference: perceiver plays an interpretive role. Influences by previous experience cognitive and perceptual processes often occur outside of conscious awareness. Study of the relationship between the physical properties of the stimulus and the properties taken on when filtered through subjective experience. Interested in early stages of information processing. All conscious experiences can be broken down into basic mental elements: sensations, feelings. Objected to atomistic approach to consciousness proposed by structuralism. Stream of consciousness: consciousness is continuous and ever0changing and cannot be broken down into discrete elements. Given focus on mental processing rather than mental structure, it had more .
