PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Echoic Memory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Caitlyn Mc Coleman

Document Summary

Cognitive science approach: the scientific study of the mind. The study of cognition from psychology, linguistics, computer science, and neuroscience. Cultural resistance to thinking of the mind scientifically. Information processing: the change in information in any manner detectable by the observer. Information processing approach: a coordinated operation of active mental processes with multicomponent mental systems. Allows for internal, mental processes to be scientifically examined. Process model: a hypothesis about stages involved in tasks. Input (cid:314) encode (cid:314) search (cid:314) decide (cid:314) associate (cid:314) output. Reaction time (cid:314) concerned with the # of processes. Use to measure duration between input and output. * stroop effect was noticed, as the task became more challenging to do (interference of a reaction time of a task) Use identify items that were responded correctly. Justification quantifiable, objective, reliable, and reproducible. Assumption the objective measure that people are scored against make sense.