Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Boolean Algebra

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Marc Joanisse

Document Summary

That is, is our mental faculty of language different from how we do things like: As we"ll see several scientists have been interested in this issue, from a variety of perspectives. George miller is a pioneering researcher in cognitive science. His research in the 1960s focused on explaining mental processes, especially things like learning and memory. One interesting thing that miller discovered was that language abilities often influence how a person performs a cognitive task. One way this came about was his study of paired associate learning: learning to associate pairs of (seemingly unrelated) information. For instance, he had people memorize lists of letter triplets like plm dat or. The original purpose of this task was to examine people"s capacity for long term memory and learning (and in fact you might have learned about this in other cognitive psychology courses). An interesting thing was happening though his subjects found some of these pairs easier to memorize than others.