PSYC 3404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joint Attention, Long-Term Memory, Dishabituation
30 Oct 2017
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Analyzes the ways people process information about their world. Stimulus attention memory thinking response. Encoding: how things get into memory (particular long term memory) Automaticity: the ability to process information with little or unconscious effort (ie. been repeated so many times we don"t have to effortly do it) Strategy construction: create new procedures for processing information. Arrows are usually bidirectional and go everywhere. Speed of processing (how quickly information is processed) Often measured with response rates from different tasks (ie. press this key as soon as you find waldo. Time used can be data for response time) Important because it influences what we can do with that information. May affect memory, thinking, and effect to the stimulus. Processing speed usually improves as you age. Myelination: enhances the speed at which signals are sent through your brain. Health and exercise can influence the rate at which processes decline. Older adults can adjust for these declines (for slower processing speeds)
