PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sensory Memory, Metatheory, Cognitive Psychology
3 Feb 2014
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Metatheory a general theoretical framework consisting of the assumptions made by practitioners of a science that guide the research activities of those practitioners. Is a set of assumptions and guiding principles. Information-processing approach the approach that describes cognition as the coordinated operation of active mental processes within a multicomponent memory system. Term"s original use: mental processing as a sequence of mental operations, each operation taking in information, manipulating or changing it in some fashion, then forwarding the result to the next stage for further processing. Today"s use: refers more generally to the fact that humans encode and process information. It is the awareness that prompts us to write reminders to avoid forgetting things: brain brain-cognition relationships and question. 1: how and where a fact is stored in the brain are bery different questions from how and where the fact stored in memory, with radically different answers appropriate to each question.
