PSYC 263- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
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Structure/representation: the knowledge you posses; info in your memory. Process: an operation on an external stimulus or on an internal representation. Ex: creating new memory, learn something new and combine it with something from the past. Phone number: it seems structured but its changed so its dynamic. Cognition: knowledge from personal view or experience; perception; a thing known. Cognition is what"s going on in your mind. Ex: partner asks if you remember the first time you kissed and you don"t. you lie and say yes. Shifts emphasis from sensation/perception to the integration of sensory information. Theory of air as the vehicle for cognition. Wax tablet: you have very right, factual memories and you can just take these exact memories and remember them. Memory in the stomach (hundreds of years in between) Developing ways to study how perception worked= the unobservable world of the mind. Simple (can be studied) vs higher physical processes (didn"t think you could study high processes)
