PSYC 213 Chapter Notes -Psychosurgery, Lobotomy, Master Sergeant
6 Dec 2013
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Cognition has no precise definition: action and faculty of knowing it"s about the processes + the different divisions of our mind. Folk psychology= a set of assumptions and theories based on everyday behaviours of ourselves and others. Cognitive concepts: awareness- consciousness, intelligence- quickness of understanding/ info/ sagacity, intuition- immediate insight, personal acquaintance- social knowledge, recognition- categorizing what we"ve seen/ reviewing and revising, skill- reasoning/ practice knowledge/ expertise, understanding- judgment, decision-making/ comprehension. Everyday we are thinking and processing info: attending/ comprehending/ remembering / problem-solving. (merkel) people respond more slowly to less likely signals i. e. response time increases when number of alternatives increase (slower to answer) (hick) information is intimately concerned with response time (rt) 1) the amount of time it takes info to be processed in the nervous system. 2) the amount of visual info that a person can transmit has limits. Results: control tower operators can identify 2 different call signals but process 1 of 2 simultaneous word message.
