PSYC55H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Angiography, Cognitive Psychology, Information Processing
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Ontogenetic methods have been used to turn on and off cells in many parts of the brain. Cognitive psychology: the study of mental activity as an information processing problem. In the sternberg test if the participant is using parallel processing, then reaction tome should be independent of the number of items in the memory set. If the comparison process runs in a serial manner then reaction time should slow down as the memory set becomes larger. In the word superiority effect participants were most accurate in identifying the target letter when the stimuli are words. Fundamental goals of cognitive psychology include identifying the mental operations that are required to perform cognitive tasks and exploring the limitations in task performance. Angiography: clinical imaging method used to evaluate the circulatory system in the brain and diagnose disruptions in circulation. Brain lesions: can result from tumors/neoplasm, which is a mass of tissue that grows abnormally and has no physiological function.
