Psychology 2135A/B Chapter 1: Chapter 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Deanna Friesen

Document Summary

The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thoughts , experiences and the senses: we have to act. All processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. What if there is too much information and we have to make a quick decision: processing speed will be slowed down with to much info. Participants indicate which light was on with a button press the more possible alternatives, the slower the participants were slower to identify if there is more things to choose from. Extension: the probability of the light sequence was manipulated the more probable a response, the quicker that response is. A time limitation: whatever were looking for acquiring information, there still is a capacity in the channel over time. Air traffic controllers perfomed a dichotic listening task. They could report the call signals from each of the planes but only one message.