Friday, May 18, 2007

Lets get to know about cognitive psychology !!

Its a subject to study in which we know how we carry out our everyday tasks and how we cope with booming, buzzing confusion of stimuli which constantly bhit us during our whole life when we are so very awake.
This covers a broad range of research domains, examining questions about the workings of memory, attention, perception, knowledge representation, reasoning, creativity and problem solving. [cognobytes.com]
A lot of things you can find at this SITE. I read it sometimes back that -- Cognitive psychology is a theoretical perspective that focuses on the realms of human perception, thought, and memory. It portrays learners as active processors of information--a metaphor borrowed from the computer world--and assigns critical roles to the knowledge and perspective students bring to their learning. What learners do to enrich information, in the view of cognitive psychology, determines the level of understanding they ultimately achieve. It was a proposed one by Fred T. Hofstetter, University of Delaware.
Well cognition is a fusion term which can be referred to as information processing view of an individual's psychologycal functions, understanding and trying to make sense of the world, and a lot of proposed ideas. But the basic thing that underlies is the thought process. It means simply to know. It relates to such a varied set like mind, reasoning, perception, intelligence, learning etc. What is it really referred to when used on AI context is mental function, mental process and state of intelligent entities with a focus to study the stated things as planning, comprehension, inferencing, learning etc.
Empirical research into cognition is usually scientific and quantitative, or involves creating models to describe or explain certain behaviors.
So not going in deep of how the models are made and what formula they use just make sure you keep thinking and thinking as long u are to survive. you stop thinking you stop surviving....Well Intelligence Sensorium System (P) Ltd. has taken some initiative to spread the aware ness in this fiels by just started to provide to some schools so that they get ready from then..

happy cognizing !!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is great info to know.