CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Animal Cognition, Qualia, Psycholinguistics
16 Oct 2017
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Lecture 4 (sept. 28) the fields of cognitive science. Historically 4 core fields: psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics. Contemporary core field: neuroscience (esp. cognitive neuroscience) Secondary fields (i. e. , not core, but overlap occasionally) : education, anthropology. I"m going to mention critiques of all of these fields, but that does not mean that i endorse these critiques! I am only repeating critiques i have heard. Characterized by: subject matter: the study of natural minds, mostly human. Broadly interested in cognitive functioning/how behaviour works, even when it is erroneous. Cognitive psychology is not cognitive behavioural therapy: methods: laboratory experimentation, statistical analysis, computer cognitive modeling. Psychology methods are empirical getting info. by observing the world. Cognitive psychology: broad field of basic research in human internal mental processes. Human factors/human-computer interaction (hci: studying how people psychologically interact with artifacts (human-designed/made things), such as user interfaces (e. g. , laptops) Evolutionary psychology: trying to understand how our evolutionary history has made our minds what they are.
