Psychology 2135A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Turing Machine, Turing Test, Channel Capacity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Albert Katz

Document Summary

Study of the mind/brain basic processes in: perception, allocation of attention resources, memory, language, problem solving. Descartes and the relation between the mind and body separate entities that interact in some way. Beha(cid:448)iourist re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374): we do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to others (cid:373)i(cid:374)ds (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) get (cid:373)easures of (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours input/output: we cannot depend on mental images subjective and unreliable, concentrate on observables and measurable variables. Tri(cid:272)t (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iourists do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake (cid:272)lai(cid:373)s a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat goes in in the mind only the relationship of sensation and behaviour. The mind is a black box what happens inside the box? (mind for cognitive theorists) Argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: do(cid:374)"t just look for input/output relations (behaviourism) Try to understand how the input is interpreted in the mind to give us output. You (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)uild a (cid:448)er(cid:455) good idea of (cid:449)hat hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s do by ignoring the mind we interpret our stimuli and what it means to us with mental representations.