Answer 1:
What is cognitive science?
Questios:
1. What is cognitive science?
2.What is the definition of human information processing? State the diagram stage of information processing.
3What is development history of cognitive science?
Is the inter disciplinary, scientific study of mid and its processes.
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It examines the nature, the tasks and the functions of cognition.
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Is the inter disciplinary, scientific study of mid and its processes.
Artificial Linguistic Psychology Intelligience
Introduction of cognitive science
To understand these faculties, cognitive scientist borrow fields from
Philosophy Anthropology Neuroscience
Language
Perception Memory
Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientisr inclde
Attention Reasoning Emotion
Answer 2:
Information processing and human cognition
Definition of human information processing
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Is an approach to the study of human thought and behaviour developed beginning in the 1950s as an alternative to the behavioral approaches that were popular at that time.
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The architecture and operation of the subsystem can be revealed through use of various behavioral, psychophysiological and brain-imaging methods.
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Stage of information processing: one of the major issue in cognitive psychology is the study of memory.
Answer 3:
The beginning: Provinces of Philosophy
>Greek Philosophers
>Study of the mind(Epistemology)
>Nature of human knowledges
Others philosophers
>Rationalism-Thinking and Reasoning
>Descartes(French)
>Liebniz(German)
>Timeline
>350B.C-19th Century
Development of Experimental Psychology
>Initiation of laboratory methods for systematic study mental of operations
>Instropection(looking inside of own experience)
>Behaviorism
>Denying existence of MIND
>Examine and observable behavioral responses
>Timeline
>19th Century-1950s
Behaviorsim: Classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov:
Behaviorism: Operant conditioning
B.F Skinner:
Stimulus responses=Learning
Emergence of Cognitive Science
>Capacity of human thinking limited
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Short term memory(limited to 7 items
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To overcome is record information into chunks(small units can be combined into larger meaningful units.
>Growth of Artificial Intelligence
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Primitive computers in existence
>Development in Linguistics
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Language ability(mental grammar)
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Reject behaviorism
Language is used creatively not parroted.
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