PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Ulric Neisser, Noam Chomsky, Cognitive Psychology
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Chapter 15: cognitive psychology: the oxford english dictionary defines cognition" as the action or faculty of knowing". Thus, cognitive psychology investigates those processes by which we understand ourselves & the environment: these processes include attention, memory, concepts, imagery, problem solving, reasoning, judgment, and language. The concept of information": one of the developments of the 20th century ! computer science & allied disciplines, a computing machine can be seen as an information processing system, information is the opposite of uncertainty. Ex) before tossing the coin we are uncertain about which alternative (heads or tails) will occur. After tossing the coin, we are uncertain is eliminated. Any event that reduces or eliminates uncertainty provides us with information: some situations contain more uncertainty than others. Rolling a die contains more uncertainty than tossing a coin (6 sides versus 2: it is possible to quantify the amount of information provided by the occurrence of an event in terms of bits.
