PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Observational Error, Mental Chronometry
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Why do we expect inference when naming ink colours but not: because you have practiced reading so much it"s automated. Haven"t practiced naming colours as much (horse race) Lab 5 - measuring cognitive processes - stroop. We have 1 dv (y: name ink vs. read word, congruent vs. incongruent information, response time to name or read 20 items (rt in seconds) Progressive error (related to getting better or worse as you progress) The cognitive approach to information processing (the computer. Cognitive psychologists measure the speed of mental processes that are too fast for us to be consciously aware of. Ex: left or right: simple reaction time. Example; on a signal to go with right hand (the simple condition), no decision stage is required. The difference in time between choice and simple rts is therefore the time it took to process the decision stage.
