Psychology Colloquia

Abstract:: All psychology faces two fundamental problems. Thought and action are goal-directed, controlled by each individual's motivations and knowledge systems. Multiple stimulus determinants are typically integrated in constructing thought and action in any context. Both problems can be solved in some cases with three mathematical laws of information integration. These laws have had reasonable empirical success in almost every area of human psychology: social-personality, judgment-decision, learning/memory, language, psychophysics, and developmental. This generality warrants the term law.

University of California, San Diego
Homepage Calendar Directions Past Events Psych Homepage UCSD Homepage	The Department of Psychology is Honored to Present a Talk by Norman Anderson University of California, San Diego "Unified Science Based on Psychological Law" Presented on April 5, 2007 Location: The Crick Conference Room Mandler Hall, room 3545 Abstract: All psychology faces two fundamental problems. Thought and action are goal-directed, controlled by each individual's motivations and knowledge systems. Multiple stimulus determinants are typically integrated in constructing thought and action in any context. Both problems can be solved in some cases with three mathematical laws of information integration. These laws have had reasonable empirical success in almost every area of human psychology: social-personality, judgment-decision, learning/memory, language, psychophysics, and developmental. This generality warrants the term law.
Researchers and the general public are both welcome to attend the Psychology department's colloquia. Reservations are not required, and admission is free. If you have any questions regarding the department's colloquium series, then please write to colloquia@psy.ucsd.edu