CGSC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Cognitive Psychology, Qualia, Psycholinguistics
11 Jun 2016
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Broadly interested in cognitive functioning, even when it is erroneous. Methods: laboratory experimentation, statistical analysis, computer cognitive modelling. Cognitive psychology: broad eld of basic research in human internal mental processes. Human factors/human-computer interaction (hci): how people psychologically interact with artifacts (human designed things) such as interfaces. Evolutionary psychology: how our evolutionary history has made our minds what they are. Comparative psychology: animal cognition, sometimes comparing it to human. Not enough model building: you can"t play 20 questions with nature and win. Dustbowl empiricism: not enough theory, there are no theoretical psychologists. Methologically limited: cognitive science is possible because psychology won"t innovate to embrace the methods of other elds. Subject matter: usually big questions, what our concepts mean, otherwise quite broad. Methods: thinking and writing, thought experiments, conceptual analysis, argumentation, theorizing from evidence from other elds and common-sense observations. They don"t pay enough attention to empirical study.
