PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jigsaw Puzzle, Human Factors And Ergonomics, Information Processing
18 Jun 2013
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Cognitive psychology: the branch of psychology that identifies our mental processes and how they affect our ability to interact with the world around us. Cognition: those processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. Symbolic distance effect: the more discriminable two objects are (larger or smaller), the faster the judgment of which is larger or smaller. Memory: the mental operations that store information as well as recover and retrieve it at appropriate times. Behaviourists: a scientist who looks exclusively at observable actions (what can be seen), rather than hypothesizing about mental processes (what cannot be seen). Information processing: a way of thinking about human behaviour: analyzing the flow of events, in both our external and internal environments, shows how past knowledge helps us understand present events. Gestalt psychology: the study of principles that determine how people"s perception of the whole is derived from their perception of individual parts.
