Cognitive Psychology and Life, Psychology and Cognitive Science

concepts

Self-identity].

Concept: (not rigorous) Essentially, it refers to the continuity of personality development, maturity, and sense of unity.

Three levels: (1) the most basic level, i.e., ego-identity; 2) personal identity; (3) Social identity.

Mental representations

Concept: "The way in which knowledge is reflected and existed in our psyche".

Genres: Cognitive maps, mental images, schemas, and mental language.

Rational Ignorance] First Laws

01- Human Evolution and Brain Mechanisms.

In the cruel evolutionary competition, the human brain is "survival" rather than "truth-seeking", forming two characteristics: "high efficiency" and "energy saving".

Efficient means that it relies on intuition and emotions, images and other ways of thinking that react quickly, while counterintuitive ways of thinking such as abstract concepts and logical deductions require deliberate training to master.

Energy saving is to focus only on those that are closely related to one's own survival, such as the social bandwidth of 150 Wang Bi people.

The formation of thinking structures can be said to be a mental activity, and is therefore closely related to psychology. Mental model is the mental process of people's cognition of the world, and the research of cognitive psychology reveals the process of human psychological formation. Therefore, the study and understanding of thinking structures and mental models is based on cognitive psychology, and we need to understand some of the basic perspectives of cognitive psychology.

Cognition is the process by which the senses generated by the human brain are converted, reduced, interpreted, stored, restored, and used in input. Cognitive psychology regards human mental processes as a series of successive stages of mental processing, that is, the way the brain processes information is serial or serial.

Cognitive psychology is a psychological trend that emerged in the West in the mid-50s of the 20th century, which studies people's advanced mental processes, mainly cognitive processes, such as attention, perception, appearance, memory, thinking and language. The higher mental processes of a person are the mental activities that are processed by the mind behind behavior, including the degree of thinking, decision-making, reasoning, and some motivation and emotion, and are designed to study the functioning of memory, attention, perception, knowledge representation, reasoning, creativity, and problem solving. In contrast to behaviorist psychologists, cognitive psychologists study those mechanisms and processes inside the brain that cannot be observed, such as memory processing, storage, retrieval, and alterations in memory.

It focuses on the psychological mechanisms that underlie human behavior, and its core is the internal mental processes that occur between the input and output of the brain. Its essence lies in the study of the structure and process of cognitive activity itself, and the core is to reveal the internal psychological mechanism of cognition, that is, how information is obtained, stored, processed and used.

The research scope of cognitive psychology includes mental processes or cognitive processes such as perception, attention, representation, learning and memory, thinking and speech, as well as children's cognitive development and artificial intelligence.