COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Connectionism, Child Abuse, Neurophysiology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: COGS 100
• Professor: Mark Blair

Document Summary

Seeing is believing: how outside world gets in cognitive processes. Important source of knowledge: e. g. light and shadow. Experience things that do not really occur: making (cid:862)(cid:271)est guess(cid:863, e. g. apparent motion assume it is moving in such a way. In a way that fits with our expectations (cid:862)i"ll (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e it (cid:449)hen i see it(cid:863) (cid:862)i"ll see it (cid:449)hen i (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e it(cid:863) top down processing. Our intuition is that we see and perceive all the sensory info that comes: e. g. gorilla. Our perception is incomplete, constructive, influenced by previous experience. Language affects image recall (memory, judgment & choices) Our memory is incomplete, constructive, influenced by previous experience. Our judgement and decisions are incomplete, constructive, influenced by previous experience: e. g. assume yourself richer choice question. Our decisions and judgements can be influenced by biases. Higher and higher up in the cog system, the brain is a guessing machine.