Cognitive Psych Information Processor & Connectionist Approach

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Definition of Cognitive Psychology
The study of the way the brain processes information
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Why is it important?
It’s the ability to learn, remember, problem-solve & reason (Sternberg, 2016)
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What are the two major DVs measured in Cognitive Psychology?
Reaction times & error rates
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What is the information processing paradigm?
Where cognitive psychology sees a person as a processor of information, just like a computer takes information & follows a program to produce an output
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What are the main assumptions of the information processing paradigm?
Cognition can be thought of as info (what we do/see/hear) passing through a system (our mind) - We get info from environment, process it & then output decisions
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Stages of Information Processing Approach
1) input - sensory memory 2) process - working memory 3) storage - LTM
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Connectionism Approach
Tries to explain human cognition by using artificial neural networks. We create networks in the “computer programs” based on the ideas of “real” networks as found in the brain
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What was the first artificial network in connectivism approach?
Perceptron (mimics perception)
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What is the purpose of these frameworks (info processing & connectvism)?
1. Efficiently describe & summarize data which we observe in experiments 2. Allow generalisations 3. Can be used to predict data 4. Understand the underlying principles of how the mind works
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