PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Multiple Realizability, Cartesian Coordinate System, Flowchart
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Information processing view: deeply influenced by both computer metaphor and cognitive science, rejects piaget"s notions that the mind is monolithic, movement through stages there is lots of evidence against this. Ip approach says: 1) the mind is made out of information and its processing (processing = manipulated inferentially using logical symbols like a computer: have to be careful with term information" can be equivocated. Meaningful things that you learn/read everyday meaning more alternatives are ruled out, the more informative an event is. Information = statistical relevance (e. g. holis) the. Because signal and noise overlap, events are often ambiguous in how they should be interpreted signal can be lost. Fault tolerance = resilient, resistant to noise but inefficient. No a priori answer to this, depends on the environment if environment is rich in resources, can afford to sacrifice efficiency (i. e. long lecture. Can repeat things, multiple explanations for same thing, etc.
