PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Necker Cube, Sensory Memory, Echoic Memory
16 Apr 2016
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Broadbent"s filter model: attentional processing works in the model of a channel with a filter that selects for certain features and allows them through to attention. Waugh and norman"s model of information-processing: stimuli go into primary memory automatically, but are only committed to secondary memory if they"re rehearsed. Jost"s law of forgetting: if two memory traces are of equal strength, the decay of the younger trace will be faster than that of the older trace, expression of the pattern of the forgetting curve. Gestalt switch: sudden change in perception, can be sensory perception or cognitive, like understanding of a problem. Zeigarnik effect: the tendency to persist in unfinished tasks to reach a solution. Bacon: artificial intelligence technology that analyzes patterns between two variables using several heuristics, capable of discovering certain already-established scientific laws test subjects who successfully discovered some of the same laws as.
