文档介绍：Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Cognitive Psychology versus Behaviorism
Behavioral Psych: how S maps onto R
Cognitive Psych: what happens in the mind
Both can use formulas to map S onto R
The difference is level plexity
Environment
Mind
S
R
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Cognitive Psychology versus Neurobiology
Neurobiology: how does the brain do it?
Cognitive Psych: how does the mind do it?
Both can use neurons to describe mind
The difference is behavior (the big picture)
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Metaphor: mind = Windows
Behaviorists:
“What happens when I press Alt-Tab? Cool! It switched to my last open application!!” But how does that work?
Neurobiologists:
“Check this out, the harddrive and the RAM are both connected to the motherboard!” But what does that mean?
Cognitive Psychologists:
“Pressing Alt-Tab switches me between applications, and I know that Windows uses STM… Let’s propose a model of Windows where it stores which apps are open in STM, and when a user hits Alt-Tab, it switches between open apps.”
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Cognitive Psychology versus Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI: what’s the best way to do this?
Cognitive Psych: how do humans do this?
Both try to model some form of mind
The difference is fidelity
Brain is optimal: If AI truly wants to find optimality they should study Cognitive Psychology.
Why study Cognitive Psychology
Understanding the mind
Education
Medicine
Therapy
Artificial Intelligence
Tool/Interface Design
Gaming/Entertainment
Etc.
What is involved in Cognition
The book lists:
Perception, Attention, Memory, Problem-Solving, Language, Reasoning, & Decision-making
This is not prehensive list of mental processes
These processes are not independent of one another
. attention may be part of perception; language may be part of memory and decision-making, etc.
Complexity of Cognition
Fi