PSYC340 Chapter 1: Introduction to cognition
17 Feb 2018
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The roots of the cognitive revolution: to explain or predict behavior, we must understand the world of perceptions, understandings, and intentions. Working memory: some initial observations: working memory: memory you use for information that you are actively working on, such as ready. Holds information in an easily accessible form, so that the information is, so to speak, at your fingertips, instantly available when you need it: span test: measures working memory capacity. While this is going on, the executive is free to work on other matters. Therefore, if these mechanisms are in use for actual speech, they are not available for sub vocal rehearsal. Hence, many e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)i(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts (cid:271)lo(cid:272)k (cid:396)ehea(cid:396)sal (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)i(cid:374)g pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts to sa(cid:455) (cid:862)tah-tah- tah(cid:863) out loud. Chapter summary: cognitive psychology is concerned with how people remember, pay attention, and think. The important of all these issues arise in part from the fact that most of what we do, think, and feel is guided by things we already know.
