PSYCH 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Reductionism, Lexical Decision Task, Tabula Rasa

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3330
• Professor: Robert Campbell

Document Summary

Attention: a state of focused awareness on a subset of the available perceptual information. Channel capacity: bandwidth; any channel any physical device that transmits messages or information has a limited capacity. Cognition: the collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding, as well as the act of using those processes. Cognitive psychology: the study of higher mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, and thinking. Cognitive science: the scientific study of thought, language, and the brain in short, the scientific study of the mind; the study of thought, using available scientific techniques and including all relevant scientific disciplines for exploring and investigating cognition. Conceptually driven processing: when existing context or knowledge influences earlier or simpler forms of mental processes. Control processes: processes that require attention; it is often difficult to carry out more than one controlled process at a time.