Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Long-Term Memory, Descriptive Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge
2 Dec 2014
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Basic assumptions of cognitive psychology: cognitive psychology: a theoretical perspective that focuses on the mental processes underlying human learning and behaviour. Adherents to this perspective are sometimes called cognitivists: cognitive psychologists have offered numerous explanations for how people mentally process information many of these theories are collectively known as information processing theory. It is useful to distinguish between sensation environment and perception- one"s interpretation of stimuli. Students often just store the gist (the general meaning) The tendency to encode gist rather than verbatim information increases as children get older: retrieval: the process of finding information previously stored in memory, sometimes information is easy to access and sometimes close to impossible. A model of human memory: memory has three components, the sensory register, short-term memory and long-term memory. Anything that doesn"t get attention disappears from the memory system. We can only really attend to one complex task at a time.
