Where Did Cognitive Psychology Come From?
• Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Program computers to think like people. Implies that we can model mental processes. • Weak AI vs. Strong AI. • Modeled after human thought, Pragmatic • Major players • Newll & Simon (GPS) • Roger Schank (Scripts) • Marvin Minsky (Frames) • Linguistics, Chomsky’s development of transformational grammar. Also implies the existence of internal mental processes • Cognitive Science, developed in the 1970s as a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the mind that includes psychologists, philosophers, linguistics, anthropologists, computer scientists, etc.
