PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Model, Mental Chronometry, Design Of Experiments
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We have stimulus in our mental system where thinking, mental processes, and decision making happens and we choose to do or not do something. Experiment will use mental processes for the task (eg. memory) Decision making will result in behaviour that we can measure. How much time it takes you to do it (reaction time) We use information we can see to infer how thinking is happening. Cannot directly study the mind because it is not tangible. Cognitive models are created to describe the various steps hypothesized to be involved in a cognitive process (e. g. , reading) How people learn language, how people make moral decisions) esign) how people make moral decisions) From that theory, we might create a cognitive model. Cognitive model: model that explains the steps that occur in thinking. When creating such models, researchers should be mindful of the following: What is this model trying to describe? (clearly specified) a.
