Cognitive Psychology Medin Chapter 1 notes
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Psychology [1]
Domain of Cognitive Psychology Cognitive Psychology: The study of thought. Approaches and methods to study cognition. Debate & enigma Intuition Just because we have spent our whole lives thinking, doesn?t mean we understand the process. Naive Realism: The idea that perception involves nothing more and nothing less than seeing the world as it is Problems: this is wrong, perspective matters & can change your view as it is colored by expectations and beliefs. We also do not always see things the way they are This also doesn?t provide and explanation of how perception is accomplished. Puzzles Lots of information is lost during the imaging process (turning 3D objects into 2D objects on the retina- perceptual experience has a very large number of possible interpretations).