PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parallax, Netscout Systems, Edge Detection
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Ps260 introduction to cognitive psychology: dr. todd feretti. Lecture 1 introduction & chapter 1, the science of the mind. Outline: definitions of cognitive psychology, roots of cognitive psychology. Psychological definitions of cognitive psychology: the research approach that views intelligent behaviour within an information processing framework and is characterized by willingness to develop and evaluate ideas about internal mechanisms and procedures that mediate behaviour. Medin, ross, & markman (2001): cognitive psychology refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, and recovered. Neisser (1967): as cognitive psychologists, we are interested in a wide domain of inquiry: how people perceive, represent, remember, and use knowledge. Aristotle: doctrine of association, mental life explained in terms of 2 basic components, ideas (elements, associations (links between elements, 3 laws of association, contiguity same time or space, similarity alike conceptually, contrast opposites. Introspection wilhelm wundt/edward titchener: studied conscious mental events (feelings, thoughts, perceptions, recollections)
