LIN 291 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Revolution, Noam Chomsky, B. F. Skinner
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Reading assignment (hunt and chitka vs popular article) assignment: mini term paper- compare and contrast the pieces (1 pg minimum) Skepticism v cynicism: theory of mind in animals, cognitive biases: paradolia. Example: ocd in dogs: brain architecture is quite different cross species, but how neurons work is fairly similar, no: while perhaps at the neural level, things are different, but they see to be exhibiting the same. Is it caused by humans, or just proposed by humans? behavior that we would exhibit with these kinds of illnesses. If you give a dog the same anxiety meds as humans, you don"t see the exact same effect, but you do see a reduction in those afflictions. We can think of the mind as being able to compute the physical world around it. Tabula rasa (blank slate) is useless because a blank slate doesn"t do jack. Mind = super complex: little albert experiment.
