PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Metacognition

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2700
• Professor: Jordan Richard Schoenherr

Document Summary

Psyc 2700 inference & evidence in cognition. *all content belongs to jordan richard schoenherr & where cited in lecture slides* Goal of any scientific research program: to gain understanding of world through means of certain methods, evidence, & theory (paradigm) When we manipulate something & we see systematic variations in dependent measure (e. g. , individual"s accuracy in task), we can use this to infer what goes in terms of cognitive operations. Input (steel) -> tires, chassis, windshield -> output (cars (likely), teddy bears (unlikely)) Use input into system & output from system to infer what processes occurring inside. Predictions can be made as to the output on future occasions. Input (words to remember) -> attention, memory, executive function -> output (words remembered (likely), wants to clean (unlikely)) Considering nature of input into brain (stimulus) & output from brain (response), we can infer what cognitive operations occurring inside.