PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Standard Deviation, Intelligence Quotient, Metacognition
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Ray task first task: how effectively you can defect and perceive the incoming sensory stimuli using the five sensory domains (this is how we interact with the environment) Incoming sensory (examples: audio/visual -> electromagnetic radiation or energy ie. wavelengths from lights, sounds etc. Or somatosensory -> mass) has to be transduced into electro chemical signals(neurotransmitters) in the nervous system by receptors in sensory organs in order to be perceived. After about 1/2 second later, some information leaves the memory (decay) The information we recognize is things we pay attention to (ex. Pattern recognitions: patterns of language that develop through time) Cocktail party syndrome: we filter out a lot of information we hear around us, but then we hear our name and it only takes 1/2 second to recognize and register (attention) Attention, judgement. problem solving, decision making is all completed in frontal lobe of the brain- executive to the working memory. ----------> sensory recognition -------------------> short term memory/ encoding long.
