PSYC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ponzo Illusion, Cognitive Revolution, Olfaction
5 Mar 2018
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Lecture 2: what is cognition, what is development. Cognition: not just thinking/reasoning, but the process of thinking/reasoning. Within psychology and philosophy, these processes have been referred to as. Faculties by which information is acquired and manipulated. What we know and what we do with that knowledge. Environment (the world) senses (sight (vision), hearing (audition), smell (olfaction), Taste (gustation), touch (haptics)) mind (representation of knowledge) behavior (action system) Cognition is extremely difficult to study : not directly observable. Must be inferred from behavior (e. g. speech, actions, etc. ) Includes conscious (or deliberate) processes, and unconscious (or non-deliberate) processes. Phylogenetic: evolutionary, historical change: change over time . Nature vs. nurture: the story of oscar and jack. Two identical twins described by the minnesota study of twins reared apart. Oscar was a catholic nazi raised in germany and jack was jewish raised in trinidad. Nature (or nativism") refers to something that is innate. Experience is needed only to sustain the innate thing.
