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1 Cognitive Psychology 9/19/2018 Lucie Johnson

2 What is Cognitive Psychology?
Cognitive psychology is interested in attention, reasoning, judgment, concept formation, memory, language etc. Those are topics psychologists and philosophers have always found interesting EXCEPT for the extreme behaviorists such as Watson who considered that cognitive events were simply epiphenomena, byproducts of brain activity 9/19/2018

3 Early contributions (1)
Ebbinghaus (1885) study of memory for nonsense syllables William James study of memory, consciousness etc. Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett ( ) book on Remembering: importance of personal themes, schemas for remembering 9/19/2018

4 Early contributions (2)
Jean Piaget: schemata build the individual’s cognitive structure through processes of equilibration.(a blend of Kantian and Hegelian processes) Hull and Tolman: notion od intervening variables Carl Rogers: the importance of consciousness in the therapeutic situation. 9/19/2018

5 The rise of Cybernetics
Founder: Norbert Wiener ( ). In 1948, he defines cybernetics as: the study of the structure and function of information processing systems. (esp. how homeostatic systems can use feedback to maintain balance: ex: thermostat, automatic pilot etc.) Start of information theory More about cybernetics 9/19/2018

6 Harvard’s Center for Cognitive Studies
George Miller (1920-): information processing theory of cognition. Famous article: the Magical Number Seven Jerome Bruner (1915-): concept learning, active learning, constructivism Ulric Neisser (1928-), student of Miller, wants cognitive psych to be more applied and useful 9/19/2018

7 Artificial Intelligence (1)
Alan M. Turing ( ): the Turing test. What does it mean when a computer passes it? Weak AI vs. strong AI. See if this poetry writing program passes the Turing test. What would it mean if it did? 9/19/2018

8 Artificial Intelligence (2)
The American association for Artificial Intelligence AI lab at MIT AI Depot 9/19/2018

9 Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience society Center for cognitive neuroscience 9/19/2018

10 The end 9/19/2018

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