PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mental Process, Operational Definition, Discriminant Validity
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To understand the major principles that inform the development of cognitive models; To explore and understand how a thoughtful experiment and a careful analysis of behaviour allows us to infer mental processes at work; To practice linking elements of a cognitive test with the mental processes that the test may require, and to appreciate how small changes (e. g. , pictures versus words) may matter to various amounts based on context; To examine several elements that help us create and develop cognitive tests that are clear and easy to understand/replicate across the world; Identify brain areas controlling mental processes involved in a task within a carefully designed experiment to produce behavioural dependent variables: the many uses of cognitive neuroimaging, medical uses [clinical]. Looks at electrical brainwaves: electrodes placed on multiple areas of the scalp, each electrode creates a recording channel (squiggly line), mental process localization, timing, measures where certain phenomena occur in the brain (e. g. , seizures).
