Harvard University (h2o)
Cognitive Psychology (Advanced)
Eric J. Lindblom PhD
General Course Description:
Course areas are:
Perception
Memory
Categorization/
Aristotelian Denomination
Knowledge
Language
Representation
Thinking
Cognitive Science Systems ::: A THINK TANK ::: in ::: General System Theory ::: BIO ::: Post-Doctoral
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"Education is the best provision for old age."
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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ALPHA COURSE ::: This course was developed by a Think Tank in a Course in Cognitive Science Systems at Harvard and a companion course at Rice University by similar names where students, instructors and staff have designed an ALPHA course (this one).
~Lindblom
Cognitive Science Systems is interdisciplinary inquiry in biology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, history, political science, chemistry, physics, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology and computer sciences to determine how beings function.
Reference: Luger, G. (1994). Cognitive science : the science of intelligent systems. San Diego: Academic Press.
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Main Course Support Website:
http://cognitive.bravehost.com/
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...the term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations... Given such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every [1]psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon. But although cognitive psychology is concerned with all human activity rather than some fraction of it, the concern is from a particular point of view. Other viewpoints are equally legitimate and necessary. Dynamic psychology, which begins with motives rather than with sensory input, is a case in point. Instead of asking how a man's actions and experiences result from what he saw, remembered, or believed, the dynamic psychologist asks how they follow from the subject's goals, needs, or instincts."
Ulrich Neisser
Neisser, U (1967) Cognitive psychology Appleton-Century-Crofts New York
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First Course Support Websites:
The first step in the course is to look at traditional education:
http://scholastic.bravehost.com/index.html
http://scholasticism.bravehost.com/
http://reductionism.bravehost.com/
http://utilitarianism.bravehost.com
http://progressivism.bravehost.com
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"George Berkeley was one of the three most famous eighteenth century British Empiricists (see LOCKE, JOHN and HUME, DAVID). He is best known for his motto, esse is percipi, to be is to be perceived. He was an idealist: everything that exists is either a mind or depends for its existence upon a mind. He was an immaterialist: matter does not exist."
http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/berkeley.htm
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General Course Description:
1.) Theory Learning Goals:
a.) Understanding theoretical perspectives in cognitive science systems thinking,and change beginning with theorietical orientations. The course is in exploration of complex systems thinking (including Symbolic Systems) in Cognitive Science and General Systems Theory.
b.) Assessment and appraisal of scholarly research and writing in general, specific, relative and universal areas of psychology using General Systems Theory as an extended description for cognition.
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2.) Pragmatic Learning Goals:
a.) General application of theory in cognitive science and General systems.
b.) Reflection on application of theory and design methodology in theoretical research and action research including practical investigation of ideas, norms, and change strategies in Cognitive Science and in General systems.
A number of course support websites are offered. Support websites are storage of course content.
Lindblom
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