Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3,4: Change Blindness, Intentionality, Prototype Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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In order to make predictions, refer to prior knowledge, and retrieve memories, a cognitive system needs to be able to assess the relative degree of similarity between representations. Chapter 3: knowledge and memory: rely on memory to assess a situation, make judgements and make decisions, rely on st, working, to simultaneously consider contrasting alternatives. How does memory function: we divide the core operations into three areas: encoding, storage and retrieval. Varieties of memory: memory is not a single process. Semantic memory: memory for facts distinction between a specific event and general knowledge is one that was made most strongly by psychologist endel. Collins and quillian suggested hierarchical approach for semantic memory organization. Insight was that some degree of hierarchical structure imposed on knowledge representation would result in an efficiency: knowledge is organized in this system as a hierarchy within a spreading activation system.