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The Cognitive Level
The Cognitive Level 2
Fields that compose Cognitive Science
Fields that compose Cognitive Science 2
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Cognitive Science specializes in a particular level of explanation
What is the cognitive level
100
A set of things said to exist
What is ontology
100
Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science, Linguistics
What are the historically core fields of cognitive science
100
Study of minds, especially at information processing level
What is cognitive science
200
Learning due to the observation of others in a society. Not done by a single person, but a culture as a whole. For example, food taboo's for pregnant women in Fiji
What is the sociological level
200
Quantum Effects are directly related to consciousness
What is physical level
200
Methods: laboratory experimentation, statistical analysis, computer cognitive modelling
What is psychology
200
Any scholarly practitioner studying minds from one of the associated sub-fields
What is a cognitive scientist
300
You're at a picnic and notice that everyone who is eating the fish is running to the bathroom shortly after. You decide not to eat the fish
What is the psychological level
300
You eat because you need nutrition to stay alive
What is ultimate explanation
300
Subject Matter: usually big questions, what our concepts mean, otherwise quite broad
What is philosophy
300
Methods: building and testing computer programs
What is computer science
400
IF you are hungry AND you have food in the fridge THEN eat.
What are production rules (also, learning at the cognitive level)
400
Your ability to tolerate bitter foods over time
What is the chemical level
400
Subject Matter: human spoken or signed natural language
What is Linguistics
400
Neuroscience
What is a contemporary core field of cognitive science
500
Neurons that fire together, wire together
What is Hebb Theory (learning at the biological level)
500
Scholars believe that the regularities found at higher level are or will be deducible from lower-level regularities.
What is reductionism
500
Determining the biological functions of mental phenomena
What is neuroscience
500
Mental states and processes are determined by what they do rather than their anatomy
What is functionalism