文档介绍：Today’s Lecture
Getting Started
Grades etc.
putational Model of Mind
Evolution of Cognition
Cognitive Engineering
The Seven Sins of Memory
To Do List For This Week
See Me After Class If This Is Your
First Time Here
Pick up reading assignment, syllabus, etc. in Lecture
Register on class e-mail list By Wednesday!!!!
As of Tuesday evening, only 50% had signed up!!!
Reply to my first e-mail to the CLASS!!!!
On your own in D346
Familiarize yourself with puting environment
Introduction to StatView (Handout in class)
Read Schacter: Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2
Grades etc..
Contribution to Discuss in Lectures
Short In Class Presentations
Short Essay Assignments
Book Review or Term Paper
No FINAL if ……..
Evaluation Activity (December 7)
No preparation
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Motivations for Studying Cognitive Psychology
Intellectual Curiosity
Computational Model of Mind
Evolution of Cognition
Practical Applications
Cognitive Engineering
Education - Computer-Based Tutors
Law - Eyewitness Testimony - False Memory
Aging
Foundation for Other Fields
How Can We Study Our Own Minds?
1) Study People plex Tasks (., reading)
Problems!!!
Complexity of these mechanisms
Speed of operation
Only aware of results
From Pinker…
Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
2) Compare Human Minds to Animal Minds
Medical science
Vision, motor control, ….
Emotion and motivation
“Language” in chimpanzees and apes
Evolution of cognition
3) Compare Human Minds to Robot Minds…
Information Processing Approach
Artificial Intelligence
Compare Human Minds to Robot Minds. (From Pinker)
The robot gap:
Robots in fiction:
· R2D2, C3PO
· The Terminator
· Mystery Science Theater 3000
Why not in real life?
First law of Artificial Intelligence: "The hard problems are
easy, and the easy problems are hard."
The engineering problems of seeing, walking, common
sense, sp