PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Long-Term Memory, Eidetic Memory, Episodic Memory
Document Summary
Information processing theory explains how we develop cognitively and it changes overtime from infancy to adulthood incoming and outgoing information. Rey complex figure test demonstrate from conceptual to memory; physiospatial first outline the big picture then add the details ; cannot be described verbally. 5 domains of incoming sense information they are registered in the brain and the system is built in: visual spatial: humans rely heavily on but it is very narrow (ex. People cant see x-ray. : olfactory (pets rely on, auditory, somatosensory (touch, feeling of vibration, how hot/cold, gustatory: taste. Adaptive behavior: humans like sweet, salty, and fatty; don"t like bitter and sour because it means poison. We have perfect photographic memory for half of a second some are attended; the rest get filtered out -> filtering gets better as developing. > unable to filter out: attention deficits disorder.
