EDFL 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noam Chomsky, Computer Chess, Gestalt Psychology
5 Feb 2017
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Stepping back: examining metacognition: we are now thinking about thinking. Major events in early cognitive science: 1940"s onwards. Alan turing wrote the first computer chess program that learned : 1959. Noam chomsky publishes a devastating critique of b. f. skinner"s theory of language acquisition: 1960"s & 70"s. Cognitive science overtakes behaviorism in popularity among research psychologists. Our attention span and abilities: perception refers to the question of how we interpret a stimulus , our interpretation can be influenced by: Our motivations, desires, etc: human perception also seems to follow a number of interesting rules. The second stop: the short-term memory: the short term memory = the working memory , acts as our main processors, & has at least three subcomponents: The episodic buffer: problems with the short-term memory. Very small 7+/-2 items at a time. Automatically comes back to bite us: short term memory strategies. Elaborating: linking new information to old stuff you know.
