PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Headphones, Working Memory, Thalamus

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Sensation (eyes and ears), perception and recognition, attention, memory (stored knowledged), memory (creating new memories), decision making, and action (writing) Intelligent behaviour = artificial intelligence different than the way humans think: neural networks = new intelligence computations the way humans do applications: engineering and industrial design human factors, human-computer interaction law reliability of memory (eyewitness testimony, repressed memory) How to mimic situation ethically: business/marketing/economics consumer behaviour. Making observations of minds using one"s mind (using no other tools) Problem: how to observe the mind using scientific methodology (black box problem: stimuli box? response: solutions: introspection (wundt, 1879) look inside and see what"s going on. Highly-trained observers report contents of consciousness under controlled conditions. Introspective observations, i. e. imagine jimi hendrix feeling of recognition, imagining (hearing) his music, flood of associations. Problems: contents of consciousness are difficult to describe. Behaviourism behaviours reaction; if you can"t see it, don"t bother talking about it. Ignore anything that cannot be controlled (stimuli) or directly observed (response)