Cognitive Chapter 1 Defining Cog Psy: Study of thought and thinking Info Processing Approach: step by step model, emphasizing both structure and process.

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Cognitive Chapter 1 Defining Cog Psy: Study of thought and thinking Info Processing Approach: step by step model, emphasizing both structure and process questions -- ex: boxes in head model Cognitive Neuroscience: search for brain basis of cognition Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinary approach to the study of the mind – cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, philosophy of mind, ai Connectionism or PDP approach to mind: Modeling cognitive processes based on brain function. -- Pandemonium model here --

Three boxes of memory: Example of Information Processing Approach

Cog Chapter 1 Plato (400 BC): Forms and appearances “things aren’t what they seem” Aristotle (Plato’s student): Perception is route to knowledge Copernicus (1542): Perception is not just incomplete it is deceptive. Thomas Hobbs (1650): Only math is real Rene Descartes (same time): Mind is only proof of existence British empiricists ( , Locke, Hume, Berkeley, etc). Mind essential to construct knowledge from experience Birth of Psychology W. Wundt (1879): Structure of experience Rise of Behaviorism: Rise of Computer science in post-war period: catalyst for cognitive psychology

Plato and Aristotle Beginning of Nativist/Empiricist controversy

Copernicus

Thomas Hobbs & Rene Descartes

John Locke and British Empiricists 1700’s. The mind as blank slate.

Wundt and the beginning of scientific Psychology late 1800’s John Watson and the dominance of behaviorism

Cognitive revolution: 1956 George Miller: Magical number 7 MIT symposium: birth of AI

WWII, the rise of computer science. The computer metaphor of the mind and (eventually) PDP models of the mind