PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Load, Ion, Dichotic Listening Test

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Folk psychology: a set of assumptions and theories based on everyday behaviours of ourselves and others. Information theory: the information provided by a particular event is inversely related to its probability of occurrence. Bit: short for binary digit" - an event that occurs in a situation with two equally likely outcomes provided one bit" of information. Filter model: based on the idea that information-processing is restricted by channel capacity. Channel capacity: the maximum amount of information that can be transmitted by an information-pro- cessing device. Introspection: the act of observing one"s own thoughts and feelings as they seem to oneself. Primary memory: consists of what we are aware of in the immediately present moment"; often termed. Secondary memory: the knowledge of a former state of mind after it has been absent from awareness for some period of time; also called long-term memory". Brown-peterson task: an experimental paradigm in which subjects are given a set of items and then a number.

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