Cognitive Studies Courses 230. Introduction to Cognitive Science Cross-listed with PSYC 230. Recently, psychologists, linguists, philosophers, biologists, and computer scientists have begun to share the insights their differing perspectives bring to certain issues involving perception, imagery, knowledge representation, thinking and consciousness. This class will give students a broad introduction to the history and practice of this multidisciplinary approach. An examination of the way people think and reason, both when given formal laboratory tasks and when facing problems and decisions of everyday life.
Students consider their own reasoning and decision-making through course exercises.
Categorizing Artifacts, People, and Natural Kinds Cross-listed with PYSC 373. We will discuss the implications recent work in psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy have for these questions, and the more general problem of the categorization of experience. 6 credits, SS Not offered in 1999-2000. Seminar in Developmental Psychology Cross-listed with PYSC 380. We will focus particularly on how these developments are reflected in children's spontaneous behavior and play.