PSYC 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Autobiographical Memory, Long-Term Memory, Artificial Neural Network
10 Dec 2013
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The information to be processed can take many forms across different contexts and developmental levels. The processing can also take many forms, depending on the demands of the task: attention to critical features, insertion into a conceptual category, and comparison with past memory input. The ip has become a common approach to understand intelligence, emotional processing, behaviour in children and adolescent antisocial behaviour. Two metaphors help us understand the ip approach: the flowchart metaphor and computer metaphor. Starting point: some environmental input; end point: response output. Between stimulus and response, a number of psychological processes intervene to interpret and code the environmental input and transform it into mental information that can be used to initiate response outputs. In the case of memory, the initial input is assumed to be acted on and transformed in various ways. For example, 6 year old hears a word for the first time. More general psychological processes also play a role:
