PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Psychology, Stroop Effect, Observational Error

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

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11/21/2013 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Cognetive pyschologists want to measure reaction time. 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 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Reaction time used to measure the speed of cognitive processes. As soon as the object appears to your sense : start time. Model of cognitive process: encoding taking in sensory information though sensory processing. Say word (stimulus) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: hits auditory processing encoding, quickly compare to stored info, decide (yes/no, respond actually say yes/no. When we respond to a stimulus, the time it takes is determined by the processing steps that information must flow through to accomplish the task (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) it (cid:1) We can measure how long it takes for one of the stages by removing.