PSYCH 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Model, Noam Chomsky, Cognitive Revolution
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Want to explain how these components or mechanisms work together to allow: memorization and recall of information o. Use of information for reasoning and decision making. Memory, perception, language, reasoning: we know these things exist, but they don"t carry a physical presence. The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding, as well as they act of using those processes. Processes rarely (if ever) engage in isolation. Involve aspects of memory, language, perception, belief, emotion. In addition to pupillometry (bright circle --> sun example) Mind as a blank-slate - tabula rasa: wilhelm wundt. The structure of the conscious mind, the sensations, images, and feelings that were the very elements of the mind"s structure. Read wundt"s work and believed that objective studies could be formed. Restudy and note fewer trials needed for 100% accuracy: william james. Functions of consciousness, rather than its structure, were important. Did not do much research, contributed large ideas to the field.
