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Grouping of things into larger groups is categorization. Mental representation of a category is a concept. Medin (1989) argues concepts and categories

Chapter 8 - visual imagery and spatial cognition. Visual images: mental representation of a stimulus thought to share at least some properties with a p

Melton (1963) argues only one kind of memory storage. Levels-of-processing theory of memory: craik and lockhart (1972); memory depends not on a particu

Selective attention: usually focus attention on one or a few tasks rather than many. To focus our resources means we at least process less information

Encoding: acquiring information; translated into a form that other cognitive processes can use. Storage: encoded information held in storage for later

Cognitive psychology: branch concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use, and communicate information. Perception: interpreting sensory in

Chapter 3 - object perception and pattern recognition. Perception: interpretation of sensory information to yield a meaningful description. Areas of br

Memory is to guide behaviour; do what worked last time. When born, lots of neurons, but a lot die off as relations between some neurons are built; some

Evidence that we form and use mental images. Problem is that some people argue forming images is like seeing; process that is very different from verba

One way for a species to store the information it needs for survival is in dna. Dna works for information acquired over the life-time of the species; r

Kuhn argue scientists have paradigms and new paradigms work better and replace old ones i. e. einstein"s theory of relativity. After a paradigm shift,

Science of mental and behavioural impairments resulting from brain damage. Focuses on which processes are compromised and spared. Normal process: sensa

Image on retina does not constrain the possibilities; not enough information. Human faces probably single most important visual stimulus. Whether or no

Focal attention - controlled internally by intentions and goals. Automatic attention - controlled externally by sensory events that demand attention. B

We all know that human behaviour is very complex; need complex theory to explain behaviour. Classical times: gods caused human to do things; gods are t