Textbook Notes for PSYB57H3 at University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

Chapter 5: the acquisition of memories and the working-memory system. For many years theorizing in cognitive psychology was guided by a perspective inf

Psyb57- chapter 8- visual imagery and spatial cognition. Visual images can t be seen, counted, or controlled by other people; behaviourists reject the

In 1992, an el cargo plan lost power and crashed into a building killing 43 people in amsterdam. In a follow up study they surveyed another 93 people a

Cognitive psychology sees humans not as passive receivers and transformers of signal information, but as active selectors of information from the envir

We tend to sort every event into a particular category to see it as an instance of a particular concept: each concept takes on a number of values: e. g

Bartlett invented the concept of schema: schema (bartlett): an active mass of organized pass reaction that provides a setting that guides our behaviour

The ability to accurately recall information is one of the most important faculties that humans possess. Primary memory (william james, 1890) thought t

There are variations in retrieval: either recognize or recall. Learning, you re making connections between the newly acquired material and other repres