PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eidetic Memory, Situation Awareness, Cognitive Architecture
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Behavioral experiments to infer mechanism: hypothesis testing (theory-driven, exploratory studies (data-driven, universals vs special populations. Marr"s claim: the levels are all important and interdependent. How to think and talk about scientific work in cognitive psychology: (q) uestion. Adaptatio(cid:374) to the e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)e re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er because it helps us stay alive: past teaches us lessons, avoid harms and seek gains. When do we notice our memory system: when it lets us down, things we"re remembering is stuff we don"t want to remember, when you"re witness to something (testimony, when our memory makes us feel a lot, traumatic experience. Functional components of memory: encoding- learning new information, creates a memory, storage- holding the information until needed, retrieval- finding and brining information into active use, accessing that memory. Find a way to hold onto that memory. What would be the ideal memory system: perfect encoding- record of internal and external experience, perfect storage, nothing is lost overtime, perfect lookup, backup system.
