PSY102 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Memory, Blood Sugar, Arousal
14 Feb 2019
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Before cognition, a lot of behaviorist and psychologists (study"s things they can observe) did not like this. These neuropsychologists believed that if you should understand someone"s behavior you should understand how someone thinks. If we had to pay attention to everything we would be overwhelmed. Neuropsychologists have categorized in two different ways: how much attention do these processes involve, whether these processes can be done in sequence or simultaneously. Thoughts, actions that must be done consecutively (in sequence: parallel processing. Doing thing simultaneously (two things at the same time: control processing. Doesn"t require any attention, like a reflex: bottleneck processing. When you can"t do something at the same time, it must be done separately in sequence. (step #2) Intelligence: the capacity to reason, solve problems, and acquire new knowledge. Banet: developed a test that determined the child"s mental age. He came up with a formula to identify the child"s iq.
