PSYO 2130 Midterm: Exam 1
9 Oct 2015
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The study of how we: attend, process, store (information, think, reason, problem-solve. Cognitive science: cognitive psychology, computer science, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, economics. Cognitive neuroscience: cognitive psychology, neuroscience, cognitive neuropsychology. Key questions: stages what are the stages in which things are processed, form what is the form the information takes at each stage, mental chronometry. Example: study on mental rotation of 2-dimensional drawings of. 3d objects (given 3 pictures, asked are these objects the same, just rotated? ) Basically, it takes more and more time to decide whether the images are the same because you have to actually mentally rotate the images in your own mind first: computer models. A metaphor comparing how people process and how computers process. Useful for predicting human behaviour, but much less valid today: pdp (parallel distributed processing) models. Critical assumption of cognitive neuroscience: mind vs. brain: brain lesions.
