PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Donald Broadbent, Rela, Experimental Psychology
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Cognition: the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses, the mental action of knowing. World contains info that"s available for humans to process. The amount of info provided by a given event can be quantified in terms of bits (binary digits) Everyday activities of attending, comprehending, remembering, and manipulating numerical info are all forms of thinking : to psychologists, they"re aspects of info processing he subject matter of cog psych. Information theory: the theory that the information provided by a particular event is inversely related to the probability of its occurrence. Info reduces uncertainty in the mind of the receiver. The amount of info provided by a given message is proportional to the probability that that particular message will occur. Info theory posits that the info provided by a particular message is inversely related to the probability of its occurrence the less likely it is, the more info it conveys.
