PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Load, Egalitarianism, Spurious Relationship

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Because our brains are housed within our bodies, the way we think is connected to how our bodies work. The body can only access a limited part of reality: Not all parts of reality can be perceived at once, so we can never act on 100% of information: we have limited sensory mechanisms (sight, sound, smell) and attention capacity (more cognitive load = more error) Speed-accuracy trade off highly functional most of the time (accuracy trade off for time pressures in social/survival situations) More subtly, this situates our understanding of mind at an interface - the connections- between. Understanding this insight takes you right to the point of understanding how we construct reality at an essential level, how our own machinery wrks, and one surprising and immediate discovery - it"s not rational! What we are, is embodied awareness our consciousness is not aware of this processing occurring: we are aware of our brains explicit processes, but not our implicit ones.