PSYC1011 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mental Chronometry, Stim, Ob River
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Cognition & memory: when you recollect something it is an active process, memory key to id, 3 major types of investigation: Introspection: people should be able to tell us about their thoughts, actions, feelings, w. wundt (1879) Objective introspection / structuralism: corroboration not possible unscientific. Keep giving rewards @ each interval to get closer to desired behav. Problem: says behav. is entirely controlled by stimulus. If people are presented w/ same stim. Big idea: compute metapho fo the (cid:858)mind(cid:859: co(cid:373)pute(cid:396)s i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)ted i(cid:374) 5(cid:1004)(cid:859)s, people might be like computers. We need to study the software: cog science studies the mind, very difficult b/c mind is what the brain does. Big idea: mental chronometry: speed of thought. If brain is processing something needs to be in a finite period of time: ca(cid:374)(cid:859)t di(cid:396)e(cid:272)tl(cid:455) (cid:373)easu(cid:396)e the p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess. But can measure the time b/t 2 behav: map time to processes, method of measuring speed & org of mental processes.
