PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sensory Memory, Channel Capacity, Metatheory
9 Mar 2014
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Metatheory set of assumptions and guiding principles that serves as a general framework to guide scientists in the their research activities. Thought-provoking illustration the factory question; seeing the factory (brain) from the outside, not able to see or go inside to know what is occurring and how it functions. Mathematical cognition investigates how we store mathematical knowledge in memory and how that knowledge is applied in various math tasks: obvious age difference young children were slower than adult and longer rt for bigger numbered problems. Problem size effect the curves increase as the size of the problems increases. Accuracy the quality of performance; vary depending on one"s ability or skill and speed: negative correlation between speed and accuracy. Serial position curve a graph showing the percentage of items correctly recalled from a list. Maybe recalling the items from the end of the list depends on a different kind of memory than recalling the early words.
