PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kurt Koffka, Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Memory
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Processes by which sensory input is transformed and used. Antecedent philosophies: empiricism, locke, hume, stuart mill, emphasis on experience/learning, key is association between experiences, nativism, plato, descartes, kant, emphasis on what is innate. Brain areas: phylogenetic, hindbrain, midbrain, transmits info from spine and cerebellum to forebrain, medulla, life support, breathing, heart rate, forebrain, hypothalamus, cerebral cortex, lobes, frontal lobe, thinking, speaking, memory, movement, parietal lobe. Independence of functions: patient with damage to area a not b. Top down processes: change blindness", fail to notice what has changed, environmental changes may go unnoticed. Inattentional blindness: we encode what"s relevant to us but not the object completely sometimes. Name dog first, then cat, faster than spoon, then cat: priming effect is about 20-30 ms faster, person isn"t attending to it but is noticing it. Iconic: physical features, less than 1 sec, ex.
