hello friends i draw something on this page
what do you see most of you will jump up saying
that this is a circle but i would disagree
i would say that your mind or your brain is
making you understand this is a circle are
filling up the gaps for you this is the power
of cognition this is the power of mind and
so welcome to the course on introduction to
psychology i am dr naveen kashyap i teach
psychology at iit guwahati and at present
i am an associate professor with the indian
institute of technology guwahati
this particular course is going to venture
into the human mind and understand how the
human mind does what it does what are the
basic cognitive processes ah that takes place
in the human mind what are the various mental
events how does the brain go ahead and form
mental imagery does the mental processes and
so on and so forth we will also look at what
is the input process what is the process through
which the human mind processes this and what
is the output that it generates from it
why is it necessary to study the human mind
or cognitive processes these days we are looking
into the concepts of artificial intelligence
we see machines we find machines which learn
ah on their own which ah learn and which help
human beings but how are these machines trained
how do these machines know how to think like
human to train these machines we require to
understand how the human brain functions or
how the human mind functions and once we are
clear about the cognitive processes about
what goes on into the human mind when it does
something when it produces the input we are
able to train this artificial intelligence
machines which learn on their own machines
which eloquent being and lessen the load of
human beings although on one of the basic
cavetts of having an artificial intelligence
system is someday the artificial intelligence
becomes so intelligent that the robots apprise
and they start attacking us there has been
a recent debate ah and a speech by ah world
famous ah scientists which go ahead and say
that human the artificial intelligence systems
are not good and they should not be looked
into or they should not be ah worked on to
stephen hawking one of the most prominent
ah astrofaces out there talks about artificial
intelligence systems and say then they should
not be developed
anyways understanding of cognitive psychology
understanding of human processes human brain
processes basic brain processes cognitive
processes are enough to ah tell us or is are
essential because they tell us how and what
humans do and how and what humans why humans
dont do something
in this course we will start our journey from
the basic theories or the history of cognitive
psychology moving to the realm of perception
go into what is attention then look at whatever
the inputs were perception attention are where
they are stored how they are manipulated what
is thought thinking process of higher cognitive
pra processes like thought thinking problem
solving and an interesting cognitive process
which is learning in ah and language how to
people communicate with each other or the
various ways of ah communication and then
finish our course with something called decision
making a very interesting area of cognitive
psychology which tells us how do humans make
decisions so lets get on this course sit back
relax and start lets start our adventure our
journey into the cognitive psychology
thank you
