HLTHAGE 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Map, Cognitive Psychology, Behaviorism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2GG3
• Professor: ALL

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Cognitive psychology: how one researcher solved the big problem, of how do you take what is happening the brain and test this. A place learning study: looking at directional learning in rats, the animal already has experience in the environment, you then put it in a more complex maze. Parsimony: this is simplicity, tolman used this to create his experiments. It is not complex, it is simple and gets to the point. If you get people to think about the problem, this can also have an impact on perception. If you set the question in a guided way, there is more thinking that will impact perception: there is some thought that goes into the behavior. Law of closure: our perceptions can be bias, we often assume that things are grouped together as a whole, we ignore gaps and assume there is a whole.