PSYC 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neuroimaging, Unit
UNIT 1 (Includes 1-8)
What is Cognitive Psychology?
• Outside world/Sensory input → into brain
o Sensing
o Perceiving
o Paying attention
o Acquiring information
o Manipulating information
o Retrieving information
o Producing and understanding language
o Making decisions
o Reasoning
• → Outside world/Behavioral output
o Performing actions, influencing the outside world somehow
• Quality
• Quantity
• Speed
• Sequence
• Cognitive
Mechanisms
• Brain Lesions and
Neuroimaging
• Speed
• Accuracy
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Neural Remembering
• A, C, E → patient is experiencing a visual or hearing
sound
• B, D, F → patient is asked to remember the stimuli;
stimuli is not present
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