PSYC2300 Chapter 1: PSYC2300: Readings: Chapter 1, Week 1
27 Jul 2018
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It was originally closely linked to cognitive psychology and recently with cognitive neuroscience: cognitive neuroscience is descried as using information about behaviour and the brain to understand human cognition. Most cognitive psychologists subscribed to the information processing approach based loosely on an analogy between the mind and a computer. Bottom-up processing: processing that is directly influenced by environmental stimuli. Top-down processing: stimulus processing that is influenced by factors such as the individuals past experience or expectations. Serial processing: processing in which one process is completed before the next one starts. Parallel processing: more than one process occurs at the same time. Because of the multiple task processes that occur, this makes it hard to interpret findings. For example, suppose we are interested in the processes involved when a task requires deliberately inhibiting a dominant response. Miyake et al. (2000) studied three such tasks:
