Psychology 2062A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Procedural Knowledge, Episodic Memory, Procedural Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2062A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

Document Summary

Cognitive view of learning: a general approach that learning as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering, and using knowledge. Cognitive psychologists assume that mental processes exist, that they can be studied scientifically, and that humans are active information processors. Cognitive science: the interdisciplinary study of thinking, language, intelligence, knowledge creation, and the brain. Mirror systems: areas of the brain that fire both during perception of an action by someone else and when performing the action. Domain specific knowledge: information that is useful in a particular situation or that applies mainly to one specific topic. General knowledge: information that is useful in many different kinds of tasks. Information processing: the human mind"s activity of taking in, storing, and using information. Sensory memory: system that holds sensory information very briefly. The initial processing that transforms incoming stimuli into information so we can make sense of them.