Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Retrograde Amnesia, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Inferior Temporal Gyrus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Study of information processing do something now or in the future) All potentially useful information (things you can use to. How does an intelligent system let the useful info in. Computational complexity there are always many possibilities (of things to pay attention to) but only a few of them are relevant. Memory people rely on past experiences when doing things. Retrieve the correct memory for motor action (ex. Where the keys are on your laptop, how to write the letters) Nativism: plato, descartes, kant (emphasis on what is innate) Empiricism: locke, hume, stuart mill (emphasis on experience/learning) Application of the scientific method in understanding psychology. Specific approach determines what kinds of data are collected (which puts constraints on conclusions) S tudying cognitive proces s es by looking inward-intros pection (eas y when you talk about big ideas but hard to des cribe memory retrieval proces s - can des cribe content but not proces s )