PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Cocktail Party, Smooth Pursuit, Ataxia
12 Mar 2013
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A set of assumptions and theories based on everyday behaviors of ourselves and others. The information provided by a particular event is inversely related to its probability of occurrence. Binary digit"; an event that occurs in 2 equally likely outcomes provides one. Based on the idea that information processing is restricted by channel capacity. The maximum amount of information that can be transmitted by an information- processing device. The act of observing one"s own thoughts and feelings as they seem to oneself. Consists of what we are aware of in the immediately present moment (short term/immediate memory) The knowledge of a former state of minds after it has been absent for some period of time (long term memory) Subjects are given a set of items and then a set of numbers. Subjects begin immediately counting backwards by threes from the number. After a specific interval, subjects are asked to recall the original items.
