PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Long-Term Memory, Cognitive Psychology, Franciscus Donders
22 Mar 2017
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Chapter 1: introduction to cognitive psychology: cognition: operation of the mind; an interdisciplinary topic. Philosophy (cid:523)cognition derived from greek word (cid:498)knowledge(cid:499)(cid:524) Human factors: design of systems/devices based on interactions of humans and how they work. Short term memory (stm), long term memory (ltm) Language, categorization, reasoning, mental imagery, problem solving, judgement. ), babies learning language (they learn by experience. (cid:498)higher-level(cid:499) processes and interpretation(cid:524), difficulty building a machine/computer program with (cid:498)common sense(cid:499) Maintenance rehearsal is useful for short-term use of information. Elaboration is something you could do besides being repetitive. Memory: encoding information, keeping that information, retrieving that information. The study of how the mind controls . Cognitive psychology refers to all the processes by which sensory input is . Transformed (ex. - phoning for pizza requires transforming digits into finger movements) Elaborated (adding more information to sensory input to perform task) Used (task needed to be performed determines contribution of the process)
