Four interrelated ideas of attention 1.We are constantly confronted with much more information than we can okay attention to 2.There are serious limitations in how much we can attend [...]

Donald Thompson: because a suspect himself when he was found to match a rape victims Description of her rapist, in reality she was watching Thompson on TV just prior [...]

Iconic Memory -Immediate sensory memory as image persistence -Ex: By looking outside, you see a nice, sunny day. If you close your eyes, there is an afterimage on your [...]

Paradigm -Experimental Pattern -Conceptual framework through which a scientist views the research in his field Four Basic Experimental Paradigms Habituation and Sensitization Classical Conditioning Instrumental Conditioning Operant Conditioning Habituation [...]

Why are humans exceptional? -language and writing -building and using things -domesticating animals -social controls -cultivating crops -visiting places -altering things -MOST IMPORTANTLY: our unparalleled capacity to change our [...]

General form of propositions and language -These phenomena have no one thing in common which makes us use the same word for all, they are all related to one [...]

The principles Two general and basic principles are proposed for the formation of categories: Has to do with Function of category systems and asserts that the task of category [...]

Timbre Constancy -the quality of the sound is constant -you can hear the timbre of your friends voice in a quiet room an at a cocktail party -like visual [...]

-The role of perception is to make sense of sensation -Refers to the overall process of apprehending objects and events in the external environment, to sense them, understand them, [...]

Goals of Scientific Research: Description of behavior Prediction of behavior Determination of the causes of behavior Explanations of behavior Three Types of Scientific Studies: Controlled studies Correlational studies Descriptive [...]

Weak AI Partificial intelligence) -the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool -ex: enables us to [...]

The Turing Test -A test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Alan Turing -He was the first to [...]

Dennett’s Operation -He was anaesthetized and remembered nothing of the operation itself. -In a brain transplant operation, one wants to be the donor, not the recipient. -Dennett is confused [...]

The Mind-Body Problem -concerns the relation between mental events and physical events in the brain The Problem of Other Minds -concerns how people come to believe that other people [...]