Cognitive Psychology Introduction — Transcript

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1. 0:01hey guys welcome to the videos on
2. 0:03cognitive psychology so uh during uh
3. 0:07some of the study groups a few people
4. 0:10asked me if I could maybe upload my
5. 0:13slides uh to Blackboard uh so the
6. 0:16problem with uploading slides to
7. 0:18Blackboard is that each of the teachers
8. 0:22makes his or her own slides based on the
9. 0:25templates provided to us by the
10. 0:28department
11. 0:30so rather than just spending my time
12. 0:32trying to convince the department to
13. 0:34upload the templates and the guidelines
14. 0:37uh given to us as teachers I decided to
15. 0:40do something a little bit more
16. 0:42interesting um I will be uploading
17. 0:45videos to this account pertaining to
18. 0:49each of the four uh practicals and maybe
19. 0:53I'll add one or two additional videos
20. 0:55relating to our
21. 0:58topics um and also because it's not on
22. 1:02blackboard or within the context of a
23. 1:05classroom I can speak a little bit more
24. 1:08freely about the material itself so
25. 1:11these videos are technically not quote
26. 1:14official material provided by the
27. 1:16university um but it's more just
28. 1:18something that I'm doing uh to help you
29. 1:21guys understand some of the basics of
30. 1:24cognitive psychology a little bit
31. 1:27better um because it it really is a
32. 1:30wonderful field and I want you to finish
33. 1:33this course um having the feeling that
34. 1:37you genuinely learn something about
35. 1:39cognitive psychology and about
36. 1:42psychology in general um something that
37. 1:44you'll be able to apply later on in your
38. 1:47career uh regardless of what you
39. 1:49actually end up
40. 1:51doing so cognitive
41. 1:54psychology what is it about um the word
42. 1:58cognition
43. 2:00comes from the word coges in Latin
44. 2:03meaning to
45. 2:05know so in short cognitive psychology is
46. 2:09basically the psychology of how the
47. 2:12brain acquires knowledge and uses
48. 2:15knowledge to produce
49. 2:18behavior and this acquisition and use of
50. 2:21knowledge requires cognitive
51. 2:23processes so we acquire knowledge about
52. 2:27the world for example through um our
53. 2:30senses through perception our senses
54. 2:34take in
55. 2:36information and some cognitive process
56. 2:39might then select the interesting
57. 2:42relevant arousing information from this
58. 2:45continuous stream of
59. 2:47Sensations and uh we might then use the
60. 2:52relevant information to give some kind
61. 2:54of
62. 2:55response or we might store the
63. 2:58information for later use
64. 3:00we could take the information and
65. 3:02transform it manipulate it uh apply it
66. 3:05strategically to solve some kind of
67. 3:07problem or puzzle or to uh achieve some
68. 3:11kind of certain goal or
69. 3:13outcome um so this use of
70. 3:18information and cognitive processes
71. 3:21to uh reach a certain outcome can be
72. 3:25viewed very
73. 3:28broadly uh after after all a lot of
74. 3:31things can be considered information and
75. 3:34a lot of things can be considered goals
76. 3:35and outcomes uh the simplest of examples
77. 3:38is that you have some form of sensory
78. 3:41experience which we cons uh consider
79. 3:44your information and because of that
80. 3:46sensory experience you now want to
81. 3:49achieve uh some sort of
82. 3:52goal um for example you may experience
83. 3:56hunger and because of that experience
84. 3:58you decide to go eat something right um
85. 4:02but this works on different levels as
86. 4:04well uh for example learning to play an
87. 4:07instrument also involves getting
88. 4:09information from your senses in order to
89. 4:12reach the goal of playing a song um
90. 4:15winning at chess involves information
91. 4:18about the board and about strategies and
92. 4:21has the goal of winning the game um for
93. 4:24a child with social anxiety the goal of
94. 4:28making friends and and having simple
95. 4:31conversations um can be very difficult
96. 4:34because they have problems processing
97. 4:36social
98. 4:37information um treating a patient
99. 4:40involves getting information uh from the
100. 4:43patient through diagnosis and uh
101. 4:46continuously throughout the treatment
102. 4:49process in order to eventually
103. 4:52successfully achieve the goal of healing
104. 4:55the
105. 4:56patient um so in other words cognition
106. 4:59is basically everywhere uh and this is
107. 5:02especially true today in a world of big
108. 5:04data and uh the ubiquity of information
109. 5:08in all shapes and
110. 5:10sizes um so the field of co uh cognitive
111. 5:14psychology again is concerned with how
112. 5:18this information and how this
113. 5:20knowledge about the world is
114. 5:24gained selectively attended to stored in
115. 5:29memory
116. 5:30retrieved and uh internally
117. 5:34manipulated and um obviously also where
118. 5:37all of these processes can go
119. 5:41wrong um so these processes can take
120. 5:44place within a lab brat uh running
121. 5:48through a maze within a child uh
122. 5:51learning to walk and talk uh within a
123. 5:55person trying to focus on a specific
124. 5:57conversation in a loud bar or at a part
125. 5:59party um or even within a robot that is
126. 6:02trying to navigate a collapsed building
127. 6:05after some kind of disaster uh in order
128. 6:09to find survivors so that it can signal
129. 6:12uh the rescue team where to go um
130. 6:17cognition takes place within a person
131. 6:19suffering from depression and uh a lot
132. 6:22of research is dedicated to figuring out
133. 6:26how the cognitive processes are affected
134. 6:29within clinical
135. 6:31populations um uh I mean cognitive
136. 6:35processes also take place in people who
137. 6:38are deaf or blind and uh here as well a
138. 6:41lot of research and a lot of resources
139. 6:44are dedicated to figuring out how deaf
140. 6:48cognition works and how blind cognition
141. 6:50works and what the brain does in order
142. 6:54to compensate for the lack of certain
143. 6:56cognitive processes by adapting
144. 7:00different cognitive
145. 7:03processes um so because of all of
146. 7:07this cognitive
147. 7:09psychology is arguably perhaps the most
148. 7:14dominant Paradigm in Psychology
149. 7:17today uh cognitive psychology has a very
150. 7:21very wide reach so whether you want to
151. 7:23be a therapist
152. 7:25eventually uh whether you want to work
153. 7:28for some kind of marketing
154. 7:30agency uh whether you want to become a
155. 7:32researcher a social worker it really
156. 7:35doesn't matter what you want to do
157. 7:38eventually you will always require some
158. 7:42form of knowledge on cognitive
159. 7:46psychology
160. 7:47so here's how these videos are
161. 7:51structured I start off giving my general
162. 7:54talk on the topic for each of the
163. 7:57sessions as usual then we'll go through
164. 8:00some of the material relating to what's
165. 8:03in the syllabus and uh the experiments
166. 8:07that you guys did in the
167. 8:10practicals and finally we'll take a look
168. 8:13at some of the deeper questions at the
169. 8:15end of each chapter in the syllabus uh
170. 8:19so it's up to you to decide which of
171. 8:21these sections you uh actually want to
172. 8:25watch I just hope that they're
173. 8:27informative somehow uh and enjoy