PSY 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autobiographical Memory, Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Sensory Memory
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How many of these do you go through on a daily basis: perception and sensory memory, attention, working memory, pattern recognition and concept representation, long term-memory, memory distortion, autobiographical memory, knowledge representation, language, problem solving, decision making. Perception: how we take in and organize information. Attention and working memory: how we focus on and manipulate information. Recognizing and identifying: how we realize what something is. Long term memory: how we store and retrieve information. Memory distortion: how memory goes awry. Autobiographical memory: processes that influence personal recollection. Knowledge representation: how we represent and retrieve stored knowledge. Language: how we use words and rules to communicate. Problem solving: how we overcome obstacles to arrive at goals. Decision making: how we arrive at conclusions and make choice. An interdisciplinary approach to mind: cognitive psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy. Knowledge is gained through one"s own experiences. The environment plays a critical role in determining one"s abilities: nativists.
