Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Memory Consolidation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

A subset of mental activity that involves working with mental representations, planning and executing behaviours and the coordination of cognitive resources. Basic visual perception, memory consolidation, and coordination of sensory motor activity are sophisticated mental activities but are not considered to be thinking. System 1: faster, intuitive, evolutionarily primitive brain structures, present in non-human species. System 2: slower, reason based, evolutionarily recent brain structures, present in humans. Incomplete evidence: if you don"t have the evidence that you need you can"t solve the problem.