IOE 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Long-Term Memory, Feedback, Cognitive Psychology

• School: U of M
• Department: Industrial And Operations Engineering
• Course: IOE 333
• Professor: Clive D'Souza

Document Summary

Cognition: basic mechanisms by which people perceive, think, remember and process information. Information transformation: sensation: senses transform physical energy into neural energy, perception: information about the environment, central processing: transformation and remembrance of that information, responding: what happens when we interpret that information. 2 and 3 are involved in cognition and represented in cognitive psychology. Familiarity: top down, how often and how long the person has experienced that environment. Degree of knowledge in the world: bottom up, to what extent information that guides behavior is indicated by features in the environment. Use it to rehearse, plan, understand, visualize, decision making and problem solving. Used to create a more permanent representation of the information in long term memory, where it may be retrieved later when we perceive familiar information. Attention resources: limited pool of resources to use for our attention. Filter/selection: eyes focus on one part and not another (solid arrows)