PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lexical Decision Task, Sensory Memory, Episodic Memory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Mc Colemanand Kleffner

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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. Information-processing approach: broadly defined, the approach that describes cognition as the coordinated operation of active mental processes within a multicomponent memory system. Today, the term is taken to refer more generally to the fact that humans encode and process information: des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)ed (cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) as the (cid:862)(cid:272)oo(cid:396)di(cid:374)ated ope(cid:396)atio(cid:374) of a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) a (cid:373)ulti(cid:272)o(cid:373)po(cid:374)e(cid:374)t (cid:373)e(cid:373)o(cid:396)(cid:455) s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)(cid:863) Table 2-1 illustrates seven themes of cognition which are: attention, automatic vs. conscious processing, data-driven vs. conceptually driven processing, representation, implicit vs. explicit memory, metacognition (awareness of our own cognitive system), and the brain. We often measure accuracy and time when we take measurements for cognitive psychology experiments. The greatest analogy of the human mind, remains in the form of computers. Sensory memory: the initial mental storage system for sensory stimuli.