PSY BEH 192T Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hermann Von Helmholtz, Mental Chronometry, Experimental Psychology
4 Oct 2016
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Info about what it is that makes people learn more or less in certain contexts. How can we use this to translate it into educational practice. How to teach people the different components of reading. How can we design science text or history text to help people understand better. What is the role of working memory (wm) in math problem solving. How can we reduce wm demands to help students learn complex math procedures. Experiments with distorting prisms- you would see the world upside down- you adjust to it after 2 days and you can see right side up. You don"t just see what is there you do more with your eyes. Vision as unconscious inference- not just a read out of everything that is out there its also the interaction of what we know about the world and current stimulus. Argued that the speed of higher mental operations can be measured.
