PSYC-3600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Embodied Cognitive Science, Macy Conferences, Cybernetics
12 Feb 2019
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Arose in the 1950s because lots of other disciplines were fragmenting. 3 main approaches within the discipline: classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, embodied cognitive science. Modern experimental psych is rooted in 2 seminal publication. Psychology began to fragment early after its birth into competing schools of though. Made by repeated attempts to nd new approaches to unify the eld, or by rebuttals against claims of disunity. Psychology might alway be fragmented due to its diversity. Cognitive science used to be called cybernetics. With mathematicians, computer scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, its. Each level of analysis involves asking qualitatively di erent kinds of question and using di erent methodologies to answer them. De nitions of cognitive science usually emphasize co-operation across disciplines. Cognitive science is a recognition of a fundamental set of common concerns shared by the disciplines of psychology, computer science, linguistics, economics, epistemology, and the social sciences . Disagreements about what cognition is information processing .
