PSYC 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Metacognition, Computer Data Storage, Cognitive Psychology
1 May 2014
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The action or faculty of knowing: study of processes: the ways in which we become acquainted with things. It is a faculty: we have come to divide the mind into faculties that represent the mental activities of which we are capable. Idea that information reduces uncertainty in the mind of the receiver. That the information provided by a particular message is not determined solely by the signal itself, but rather by the whole array of possible messages of which this particular signal is just one. The amount of information a message conveys is an increasing function of the number of possible messages from which that particular message could have been selected. The less likely the message the more information it conveys (the information provided by a particular event is inversely proportional to its probability of occurrence) Information-processing limitations: it takes time to translate a visual signal to a key-press or verbal response in tests.
