NTR 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gustav Fechner, Knowledge Organization, Empiricism
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Empirical research - each methods has strengths & weakness: modeling: simulations of cog/neural processes, neural imaging, cog neuropsychology. Confound: result equally consistent with more than 1 process / explanation / hypothesis. Baseline control: if you"re trying to determine if 1 process has an e ect on another, you must. 1st establish what happened when each process operates independently of the other: diet program vs control groups, drug group vs placebo, surgery vs sham surgery. Automated process are so over learned such that they are evoked wherever an appropriate stimulus is present (they grab/highjack your attention) not under conscious our control. Strop interference occurs: when a fast / automatic / automated process must be suppressed to allow for computation of a slower / less automatized process. Like most science, cog psych has its roots in philosophy. ( science used to be natural. Elaboration of plato"s ideas, ideals taken up later by locke, hobbs, humes, behaviorists, connectionist models.
