PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Speech Shadowing, Short-Term Memory, Classical Conditioning
7 Mar 2014
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Psychology 2700: pattern recognition: we recognize patterns by only selecting certain information for further processing. Match stimulus to a mental template stored in memory. Support/examples for this idea are barcodes (every time the code is read the same product comes up). Inefficient: generally, it is not possible to have enough templates for everything. b) Irregular world: a lot of the objects we process are irregular: strict match: they need a very strict match in order to work. Feature more regular than patterns: features are easier to recognize than complex objects. We can recognize more complex things by first recognizing their features. Complex objects composed of simple features: even people are composed of simple objects. Said that we actually perceive letters as a breakdown of lines and curves. Neisser 1964: had people look for letters amongst a whole bunch of other letters. He found that it was harder to pick out the letter if it had similar lines to the others.
