PSYCO333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-13: Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, Connectionism
24 Jul 2016
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How people resent experiences mentally, make decisions. Critical to understand how people make sense of the information around them info comes to us in bits but we see it as connected (a wall, a song, an impression) integrate + organize: 2. Life is made of decisions conscious and unconscious reflects personality. George kelly: people are implicit scientists, there is more info than you can use, impose order, inferences, conserves resources. Personality = organization of mental structures through which reality is viewed. George kelly: each person"s worldview is unique, ignored cognitive revolution but sparked it. Personal constructs: theories of reality, people don"t experience world directly through lens of constructs, all events open to multiple interpretations, words don"t have the same meaning to all people (or at least we can"t be sure) Schema: mental organization of information (knowledge structure). Bring default info from memory to fill gaps. Semantic memory, episodic memory, scripts, and procedural knowledge. Semantic memory organized by meaning: objects, concepts.
