Week 1 Flashcards
Introduction, Cognitivism vs. Behaviorism
Why is psychology different from cognitive science?
Psychology includes the developmental, social, personality, and and clinical aspects of behavior and the mind
Why is neuroscience different from cognitive science?
Neuroscience includes the molecular, cellular, and systemic biology of the Brian
What is the definition of Cog Sci?
How thinking things think
What is the central hypothesis of Cog Sci?
Thinking is the representational structures of the mind and the computational procedures that operate on those structures
What are examples of things that think?
Humans, animals, bacteria, and machines
What philosophical Cog Sci concept?
What is a representation?
What is a neuroscientific Cog Sci concept?
The biology of thinking - how do humans implement cognitive processes?
What is a CS/ AI related Cog Sci concept?
How do we get computers to do the things that humans do?
What disciplines are involves in cog sci?
Philosophy, neuroscience, computer science/ AI, psychology, linguistics, anthropology
What happened in the rats experiment?
Response learning rats that only had to move left never completely understood where to go while place learning rats that always went east (aka cheese stayed in same spot) learned it and consistently figured it out
Why did place learning rats do better?
The rats created a representation of the map of the room using cues of objects outside the maze like lamps and cages
What is the behaviorist psychology approach to interpreting behavior?
Complex behaviors are just the result of behaviors being rewarded and repeated, the internal processes behind behavior is irrelevant
What is the cognitive psychology approach to interpreting behavior?
Studies the mental representations that lead to the behavior, thought processes are centrally important to explaining behavior
What is the concept of latent learning?
Learning that naturally happens without reinforcement or reward
What is an example of latent learning?
Tolman’s rat experiment put rats in an empty maze with no cheese, but when cheese was finally introduced they all found it quicker than normal showing latent learning occurred
What is serial action plan?
Linear, fixed order sequence of actions with no further organization
(ex: the cat walked down -> the, cat, walked, down)
What is hierarchal action plan?
Organizing actions into structures layers for more flexibility and efficiency
(ex: the cat walked down -> the cat, walked down)
