Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Xibalba, Concept Map, Long-Term Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Textbook review cognitive psychology a theoretical perceptive that focuses on the mental processes underlying human learning and behaviour. Adherents to this perspective are sometimes called cognitivists. information processing theory a theoretical perspective that focuses on the specific ways in which individuals mentally think about the process the information they receive. Construction a mental process in which a learner takes many separate pieces of information and uses them to build an overall understanding or interpretation of an event. Constructivism a theoretical perspective that proposes that learners construct a body of knowledge from their experiences knowledge that may or may not be an accurate representation of external reality. Memory a learner"s ability to save something (mentally) that he or she has previously learned or she has previously learned or the metnal location where such info is saved. Storage the process of putting new information into memory. Encoding changing the format of new info as it is being stored in memory.