PSC exam 1

Uses objective measures of behavior and neural responses to scientifically test how the mind encodes, stores, and uses information about the environment.

What is the mind trying to compute and why? What’s it for?

What are the rules,
mechanisms, and representations the mind uses?

What happens in the
brain to enable cognition?

Speed and accuracy trade off to some extent: if we decide to go fast, we’ll make more mistakes.

By taking differences in reaction times, cognitive psychologists could isolate the time involved in a particular mental process.

encompasses the many fields,
including cognitive psychology, computer science,
neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology

links cognitive psychology to
brain structures and functions

Focuses on the processes by which information can be coded,
stored, transmitted, and reconstructed, supporting the study of
information processing.

Associate pairs of stimuli