01:830:101 Final: Chapter 8-15 Notes

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dickson

Document Summary

Means thinking and using knowledge. (cognitive psychologists also deal with how people organize their thoughts into language. Cognitive therapists try to get their clients to change how they interpret. Because people don"t always know their own thought processes. People rotate the image at a constant speed in their mind as if they are rotating the image in the real world. It takes one second of reaction time for every 20 degrees of rotation. Bottom up process: peripheral stimuli control it magicians use this tendency (loud noise or flashlight suddenly grabs your attention) Pre-attentive process: visual information that stands out immediately (ex: a white crane in the midst of black cranes) preattentive stands out immediately while attentive requires searching. Attentive process: one that requires searching through the items in series. (where is waldo books are an excellent example of a task requiring an attentive process) Ex: field of brown bush, you find motionless brown rabbit.