PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecological Validity, Computer Data Storage, Metacognition
19 Apr 2016
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The foundation of cognition is the world contains information that we process: not one theory but a view, related to many other scientific fields. Main idea: the world contains information for us to store and process focus on the processes that transform/store/recover senses and peceptions. Human experimental psychology: memory, attention, problem-solving, language. Computer analogies, information processing approach: artificial intelligence, computer stimulation. Cognitive neuroscience: brain damage and effect on cognition. The mind is a general purpose processing system that performs a series of specific computations processes. Goal: determine the empirical relationship between choice reaction time and stimulus information content. Sometimes only 1 out of 10 could light up. Sometimes any of the 10 lamps could light up. Design: participants had to respond to a set of 8 lights presents on a large matrix using. Names" they learned for each light: bee, bix, bore, etc.
