Instructional movies: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Lecturer: Dr. Boaz Ben David
Opening: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
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What you will learn in the 3 semesters of the course
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Historical background to Cognitive Psychology
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What is "Introspection"?
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Behaviorism: Stimuli - Response
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Cognitive Psychology: Stimuli - Cognitive processces - Response
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Basic terms
> Independet variable, Dependet variable
> Converging Evidence
> Tasks
> Traces of the cognitive process
Illusions in the kindergarten (with Youtube En captions)
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What is an illusion?
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Emmert's law, 1881 (size perception)
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Ponzo illusion, 1913
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Muller-lyer illusion, 1889
Methods for measuring thresholds
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The Hearing test set up
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Methods of measurement
> Absolute Threshold
> The method of limits
> The method of constant stimuli -
Summary: The methods of measurement
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Food for thought:
> Methods limitations
> Testing tool limitations
Signal Detection Theory
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What is "Noise"? What is "Signal"?
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Response scenarios
> Hit
> Miss
> False alarm
> Correct rejection -
D-prime, Beta & the Neural activity diagram
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Examples & Summary