TB3 P&C; Topics
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- TB3 P&C Topics
- Lecture 1; Cognitive Psychology
- Historical perspectives
- The American Behaviourist tradition
- Radical Behaviourism
- Skinnerian theories
- Association ism
- The American Behaviourist tradition
- Animal cognition
- Latent learning and cognitive maps
- Cognitive psychology v.s behaviourism
- Linguistics
- Information theory
- Stage models
- Sub systems
- 'Hardware' and 'software' analogy
- Historical perspectives
- Lecture 2; Visual cognition
- Mental representations and processes
- Iconic memory, visual code and name code
- Mental imagery
- Mental rotation effects
- Structural depictions
- Ambiguous figure research
- Shape relation research
- Dual-format-representational systems
- Mental representations and processes
- Lecture 3; Verbal reasoning
- Types of logical reasoning
- Inductive
- Focused on probabilities and common sense! E.g the sun rose everyday of my life, so therefore it will rise tomorrow morning
- Deductive
- Deals with certainty, e.g is p then q, propositional logic and syllogisms
- Inductive
- Wason card selection task
- Can test for...
- Context effects and confirmation biases (using counter examples to test rules)
- Abstract v.s concrete concept use
- Use of social contracts in reasoning
- Can test for...
- Characteristics of human reasoning
- Clearly humans differ from 'cold logic machines', we are error prone (fast and frugal...), but we are making increasingly predictable mistakes
- Heuristics and bias approach to human reasoning- the 'adaptive toolbox'
- The mind has specific heuristics to solve particular types of problems commonly faced in the environment
- These include 'shortcuts'-'fast and frugal' heuristics in order to quickly perform! (but not necessarily accurately...!)
- The mind has specific heuristics to solve particular types of problems commonly faced in the environment
- Frequenist reasoning
- Reasoning using natural frequencies rather than using proportions, probabilities and percentages
- Types of logical reasoning
- Lecture 4; Effective learning and memory
- Association ism
- Contingecy
- Frequency
- Reinforcement
- Law of...
- Effect (If A has a pleasent consequence after B then likely to be repeated)
- Exercise (more often A follows B, stronger the bond)
- Paired association learning
- Shows rote learning not effective, disproving SR theories
- Importance of relational encoding!
- Specifically, distinctive, unique relations
- Importance of relational encoding!
- Shows rote learning not effective, disproving SR theories
- Organisational factors in memory
- Shows rote learning not effective, disproving SR theories
- Importance of relational encoding!
- Specifically, distinctive, unique relations
- Importance of relational encoding!
- Shows rote learning not effective, disproving SR theories
- Depth of Processing
- Can range from 'shallow' (e.g structural/ visual) to 'deep', which supports better memory (e.g categories/ sentences)
- The importance of testing for learning
- Repeated testing NOT repeated study
- Also highlights the importance of retrieval and feedback for learning
- Repeated testing NOT repeated study
- Association ism
- Tutorial; Learning and memory are much more than just SR theory
- Lecture 1; Cognitive Psychology
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