PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Design Of Experiments, Donald Broadbent, Computer Data Storage
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Folk psychology: an umbrella term for carious assumptions and theories based on the everyday behavior of ourselves and others. Cognition: the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. The study of human cognition has advanced in 3 stages: The first stage: rapid progession propelled by the methods of traditional psychophysics (the scientific investigstion of the relationship between sensation and stimulus) and experimental psychology. The second stage: fuelled by computational analysis and marked the arrival of cognitive science. The third syage: incorporated evidence from neuropsychology and animal neurophysiology, and most recently, an ever-increasing array of imaging techniques that allow us to observe the brain in action. Foundational to all of cognitive psychology is the idea that the world contains information that is available for humans to process. Cognitive psychology sees humans as active selectors of information from the environment. Stimulus: an entitiy in the external environment that can be perceived by an observer.
