PSYC 221- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Cognitive psychology the scientific investigation of human mental processes: the way that humans interpret their environment, process information and form responses, this is the underlying fabric of how you experience your everyday life. Improve training and learning: analyzing how people do things. Quantitative methods: correlation methods, correlations: two variables change together, goal: predict one variable based on another, experimental methods, goal: infer that changes in one variables cause changes in another, hypothesis testable explanation of a phenomenon. Cognitive neuroscience for a long time pyschologists didn"t look at brain. Perception involves taking the information that is sensed by the sense organs and interpreting it. Eye structure: cornea the clear covering to the eye. Image form l and r is seen by both eyes but one hemisphere gets image from each side: damage, blindsight patients with damage to optical cortex are blind no reaction to light.
