PSYC3315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zoom Lens, Psychological Refractory Period, Developmental Disorder
Document Summary
Cognitive psychology refers to all terms by which sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, sotred, recovered and used. Humans attend to encode store transform update retrieve reason with communicate information. School and developmental work- assessment of cognitive skills- identify gifted children or diagnose developmental disorder & fostering study and learning skills e. g. meta- cognition clinical work- mental illness associated with conitive deficit assessment & diagnosis. Dysfunctional thought patterns therapeutic intervention (cbt e. g. ) Judicial work- eyewitness emory, impact of emotions on memory. Science (communication) work- most persuasive or best remembered, artificial intelligence & technocognition- developing smart algorithms and computers automatic fast checking. Resource that enables cognitive processing to take place and selects information for processing- mental fuel/ filter/ spotlight/ zoom lens/ bottleneck. Focused attention- only attend to a small subset of the information that bombards our senses. Can focus on particular modality (auditory, visual) Can focus on particular characteristic (gender of speaker, voice intensity)
