PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mental Chronometry, Cognitive Psychology, Observational Error

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Name the colour of the ink out loud and then subtract interference from base condition. Codes (i. e. changes) information stores information. Uses information produces an output (retrieves info) Transistor: on/off button (basic unit on the computer) The transistor is equivalent to a neuron in the brain (the basic unit in the brain) Neuron can be either on or off (only one of the two states) The brain is much more complex than the computer however. Cognitive psychology sees the individual as a processor of information, in much the same way that a computer takes in information and follows a program to produce an output. Reaction time used to measure the speed of cognitive processes. There are 4 stages in the model of cognitive processes: encoding 3. We can indirectly measure how our brain works by using reaction time (stimulus response)