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Structuralism

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Wundt, attempt to understand structures of mind, introspection, mental elements

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Behaviorism

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Rejects introspection, 2 kinds: 1. Radical 2. Methodological

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Radical behaviorism

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  • Skinner, explains behaviors by stimulus-response, conditioning and reinforcement
  • Gallistel, “observable” measures, opposes structuralism and nativism
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Methodological behaviorism

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Use behavioral majors to model mind and cognitive processes

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Core debate: representation and computability of mind

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  • Representation: pattern of brain activity arising in specific context, pattern with a causal role
  • Materialize how external entities are processes in our mind
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Core debate: innateness

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  • Nativism (Chomsky)
  • Empiricism-blank slate
  • Nature vs. Nurture
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Core debate: mind-brain identity

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  • Mind=brain?

- Relationship=embodiment

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4 major theories of intelligence

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  1. Psychometric theory
  2. Cognitive theory
  3. Cognitive contextual theory
  4. Biological theory
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Psychometric theory

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  • IQ tests
  • General factor
  • Specific ability
  • Spearman
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Pros and cons of psychometric theory

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  • Pros: easy to assess and quantify intelligence through standardized tests
  • Cons: underlying mechanisms unknown, doesn’t take emotion and social factors into account
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Cognitive theory

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  • Info processing & SUBSTEPS

- Behavioral tasks (word recall, attention control, recognition)

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Pros and cons of cognitive theory

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  • Pros: accounts for intelligence by examining the cognitive processes
  • Cons: bias in clinical populations (ADHD), underlying mechanisms unclear
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Cognitive contextual theory

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  • Context-dependent problem solving skills

- Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence

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3 major components of triarchic theory of intelligence

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  1. Analytic (componential/internal): similar to crystallized intelligence
  2. Creative (experiential): similar to fluid intelligence
  3. Practical (contextual/external)
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Pros and cons of cognitive contextual theory

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  • Pros: accounts for both internal and external factors

- Cons: is intelligence a separable entity?

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Biological theory

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  • Reductionism
  • Biological basis, brain functions, and cognitive processes
  • Neuropsychological approaches
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Pros and cons of biological theory

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  • Pros: explains intelligence by bio and neuro terms, accounts for underlying neural mechanisms
  • Cons: certain neural network models too abstract or based on symbolic operations
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What is needed in secondary memory but not primary?

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Conscious retrieval

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What does the pure cognitive system account for?

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  • Internal functioning structure
  • Processing of input
  • Generation of output
  • Can account for some parts of AI
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What is missing in the pure cognitive system?

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External, social factors, emotion

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What constitutes our belief system? (3)

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  1. Knowledge
  2. Cultural knowledge
  3. Experience
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What is memory composed of? (3)

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  1. Experience
  2. Knowledge
  3. Theory of Mind
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Superior status of RS over CS

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  • Biological needs
  • Adaptation
  • Increased challenge–> increased demand for RS–> enhanced CS
  • Account for subconscious aversion of danger
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What is behavior?

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Cognitive functions + social norms + response to stimuli

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What is learning? (3)
Accumulation or restructuring of: 1. Knowledge 2. Mental representations 3. Experience
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What is the result of learning? (2)
1. Reinforcement | 2. Conditioning
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What is the major difference between experts and novices?
Timing
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Autocuing
Human behavior is not conditioned by environment, lead to lexical invention
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Mimesis
Representing the external entities through actions or emotions
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Traditional view of cognition
PREDICTIVE, brain as center
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Problems with traditional view
- We also get feedback from actions - Fixed (not adaptive) - Overemphasizes role of brain in cognition
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Embodied cognition
HEURISTICS, brain guides motor control, perceptual and motor systems integral parts of cognition, feedback from environment
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Situated cognition
- Context-dependent and task-relevant | - On-line (immediate) vs off-line (careful)
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Cognition is time pressured
- Real-time feedback | - Representational bottleneck
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Cognition is for action
- Adaptive behavior - Perception-Action - Used for future - Memory reps are dynamic
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Off-line cognition is body-based
- Sensorimotor simulations - Mental imagery - Memory representations - Motor cortex activated in memory retrieval - Verbs encoded before nouns
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Off-loading on the environment
- Minimal memory strategy | - Ex: counting on fingers, selective attention, calculations on pen and paper
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Environment is part of our cognitive system
- Mental process=function (internal) + stimuli (external) | - Distributed cognition: mind, body, environment
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Facultative system
Set of functions designed for a particular situation
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Obligate system
Context independent
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Simple embodiment
How actions and sensorimotor experience affect mental representation
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Radical embodiment
Mental representation not needed; focus on integration of mind, body, and environment AKA replacement hypothesis
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What representation is needed in radical embodiment?
Rep. of action but NOT rep. of an object
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What is metacognition made up of? (3)
1. Memory retrieval 2. Attention 3. Working memory
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2 levels of analysis in metacognition
1. Meta level-reflection on learning, principles | 2. Object level-learning task and learners' related cognitive activities
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Source monitoring
Ability to recall a piece of info along with details about the context in which it was encoded
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Processes in executive control (4)
1. Selecting 2. Maintaining 3. Updating 4. Rerouting
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Selecting task
Stroop
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Maintaining task
Working memory tasks (digit span), immediate recall, important to know what info is accessible so we can make adjustments
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Updating task
N-back, Verbal fluency, allows you to monitor words you produced, update current responses, prevent repetition
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Rerouting task
Correlated with selecting, attention shift and control, dual-tasking and divided attention

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