PSY 3128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Children'S Book Council Of Australia, Sensory Memory, Information Processing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3128
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Uses a computer model metaphor to explain how people process stimuli. Information enters the system and is transformed, coded and stored in various ways. Info enters storage temporarily as in computers buffer, until it is stored more permanently as on a disk or storage device. Sensory memory: where new, incoming info in first registered. Selective attention: what you are going to process relative at the time, rest is irrelevant. Working memory can handle small info at a time: some info is processed automatically and some take effort. We are more likely to process novel or unexpected info than info we have encountered many times before. Oa reading time slowed because of distracting info. Eeg: graphic record of electrical activity of the brain recorded, measure electrical protentials of the scalp. Oa put less effort into cognitive tasks and are less likely to use strategies spontaneously. Reaction: how long it took to find info (oa slower)