Lecture 7 Cognitive Level Flashcards
Learning at the Sociological Level
(low level very detailed, high level broad field),
Learning at the Sociological Level: Fijian Food Taboos
Women are discouraged from eating certain marine life during pregnancy because it affects their child. Because this idea survived it perpetuated and grew because it was successful.
Learning at the Psychological Level:
Eating some fish can make you sick, you would think it is the fish but you ignore other potential factors.
Learning at the Cognitive Level: Adjusting Parameters on Productions
Noticing a reaction to an action performed and learning from it, to either keep and / or improving to do the task or completely ignore it.
Synaptic changes
Dendrite sends messages to the axon, ( if two nearby neurons are close to each other, they might fire simultaneously, like mixing chocolate with peanut butter and realizing an association with the two.
The chemical Level
Adaptation in taste receptors learn to tolerate bitter foods. Chemical level explains experiences with drugs.
Physical level
What the brain is made up of
Ontology
a set of things said to exist (vocabulary used to describe things) Psychology deals with beliefs, memory etc. Neuroscience uses things at the biological level. With good ontology you can make theories that successfully make predictions.
reductionism
These scholars are often dismissive of things in the higher level , believing their specific field can explain everything.
Sociological Level
Attempts to explain thing about culture
Psychological level
in addition to the sociological level we need a deeper level of understanding of human psychology. like trying to figure out why a baby looks at the face right after it is born. (something built in to the babies mind)
Cognitive level
understanding different learning styles affect the way people solve problems. The same learning styles make people make the same mistakes. In terms of the biological level we can differ in our neural setup and they way neurons work.
Biological Level
We need biology because the information level does not give us enough information. We can use our knowledge of the hippocampus to follow its function to find an answer.
Chemical Level
If you have a lot of dopamine through your system you see more patterns. With Parkinsons they give you dopamine and it levels you out. Dopamine changes significantly affect the individual.
Proximate explanation
Eating because your hungry
Ultimate Description
Eating is because we have to survive and were all here because our ancestors were hungry and horny.
Cognitive level at the processing level
How you order the tasks in your day. each memory in your mind has an activation level. A higher activated memory is easier and faster to retrieve. Cognitive scientists sees the mind as a program.(consisting of representations that give you information that provides actions)
Functionalism
mental states and their processes determine their functional properties. the play hamlet for example, can be in various different format like with people, being written or even in your head.
Identity theorists
Identity theory is a family of views on the relationship between mind and body. Type Identity theories hold that at least some types (or kinds, or classes) of mental states are, as a matter of contingent fact, literally identical with some types (or kinds, or classes) of brain states.
