PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Vocal Folds, Subvocalization, Working Memory
23 Jan 2017
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Chapter 1: the science of the mind (pg. Kantian logic: decisions, pay attention, or solve problems. Applied by cognitive psychologists to explain how people remember, make. In each case, we begin with a particular performance - say, a memory task and then hypothesize a series of unseen mental events that made the performance possible. Then, we ask whether some other, perhaps simpler, sequence of events might explain the data and some other findings. In this way, we do more than ask how the data came about; we also seek the best way to think about the data. The form of memory that is proposed for this is working memory: memory you use for information that you are actively working on. Working memory holds information in an easily accessible form, so that the. Span test: information is readily available when you need it.
