PSY270H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
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Get the name of the theorist correct. Cognito, means to be aware or to know, think of the work incognito, which means to be unknown. Active attempt to know more what is meant by cognition. Philosophers have been concerned with the issue of knowledge. The science of how we justify our beliefs. Concerned with skepticism, the worry that we may not have real knowledge, illusion or delusion. We are not talking about absolute claims. Prescriptive discipline, improve what we should do. How are we getting good knowledge about the world. Epistemology has often answered those questions by relying on folk psychology common sense is made up of the common sense theories that we have inherited from our culture for how our cognition works. A lot of implicit theories about how our cognition operates. Much more interested in how science can improve upon folk psychological theories. Information processing is based first on the idea of communicating information.
