Psychology 3139A/B Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Iceberg, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Cognitive Architecture

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3139A/B
• Professor: idk

Document Summary

Human brain has 10 billion to 100 billion neurons. Hallmark of cog science is its interdisciplinary approach. Topic of the mind is the glue to cog science. What is the theoretical perspective of the mind. Cog scientist view the mind as n information processor. Information is input in our mind that we perceive. Similar computation involved in reasoning and decision making. The hardware on which the mental software runs. Each cell has simple job but together = function. Concept is the most basic form of mental representation. Proposition is a staemnet that is posed in the form of a simple sentence. Logic is not the only sustem for performing operations on propositions. The if is called the condition and the x andy are propositons. If or links them then one or the other can be true. If and links them then both have to be true. Is the mental world apart of the physical world.