Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Multiple Choice, Automaticity, Sodium Carbonate

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Karen Dickson

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology a theoretical perspective that focuses on the mental processes underlying human learning and behaviour. Five assumptions of cognitive psychology: cognitive processes influence the nature of what is learned (how people interpret their experiences affects what they learn from those experiences. ) 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. Storage the process of putting new information into memory. Encoding changing the format of new information as it is being stored in memory (ex. changing a story from auditory to visual in your mind). Retrieval the process of finding information previously stored in memory. Memory has three components: a sensory register, a working (short-term) memory, a long term memory. Sensory register a component of the memory that holds incoming information in more or less its original, unencoded form.