PSYC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noam Chomsky, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Map
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The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning: what it can do. The mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals: what its made up of. Franciscus cornelius donders (1818-1889: wanted to measure decision making, how long does it take to make a decision, simple reaction time task (simple rt) Put people in front of a light, and they had to respond as quickly as they could when they saw the light. The time it takes you to do this is how long it takes you to perceive and respond: choice reaction time task (choice rt) Second time, two lights, perceive which light it is: time to make decision = choice rt - simple rt. Everything exists in both conditions except the thing of interest (decision making)
