PSY 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Connectionism, Local Extinction, Contiguity
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Cognitive psychology: the empirical investigation of mental process & activities used in attending, perceiving remembering, learning, organizing knowledge, talking & understanding language, thinking. Cog psych is the study of the operating system & programs for our mind. Computer metaphor: input (camera (visual), output (speakers), memory, operating system, programs (skills) Empirical research - each methods has strengths & weakness. Confound: result equally consistent with more than 1 process / explanation / hypothesis. Baseline control: if you"re trying to determine if 1 process has an effect on another, you must 1st establish what happened when each process operates independently of the other. Automated process are so over learned such that they are evoked wherever an appropriate stimulus is present (they grab/highjack your attention) not under conscious our control. Stroop interference occurs when a fast / automatic / automated process must be suppressed to allow for computation of a slower / less automatized process.
