05:300:306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Payment Card Number, Working Memory, Episodic Memory

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Education
• Course: 05:300:306
• Professor: O' D O N N E L L

Document Summary

Overview: perception and attention, memory, short term and working memory, long term memory, misconceptions, retrieval, diversity in cognitive processes. Learning: long-term change in mental representations or associations as a result of experience. Cognition: mental phenomena that underlie human behavior. Theories of learning: behaviorism, social cognitive theory, cognitive psychology, contextual theories. Information-processing model: the learner develops internal representations of the external world. (when you dream, perceptual and attentional processes limit the amount of information that is available. Information is processed in working memory and potentially transferred to long-term memory, from which it can be retrieved later. Object recognition relies on form: the perception of the who is greater than the sum of the parts. Figure-ground the ground is always seen as father than the figure. Proximity objects that are physically close together are grouped together. Continuity objects that continue a pattern are grouped together. Closure the tendency to see a finished unit. Similarity similar objects are grouped together.