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McGill Cognition PSYC 213
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
02/01/2010

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Affordances
Definition

What: The potential functions or uses of stimuli in the real world

Why: In contrast to theories about how we process stimuli to make them meaningful affordances focus on the information that is present in the environment itself.

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Bit
Definition

What: Short for binary digit. An event with two possible outcomes contains one bt of information.

Why: Important in information theory it gives a way to think about and quantify  the amount of information entering the brain

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Information Theory
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What: The information provided by a particular event is inversely related to its probablility of occurence

Why: The brain acts as an information processing machine

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Filter Model

 

 

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What: Based on the idea that information-processing is restricted by channel capactity

Why:

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Channel Capacity
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What: Thew maximum amount of information that can be transmitted by an information processing is resticted by channel capacity
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Introspection
Definition
What: The act of observing one's own thioughts and feelings as they seem to oneself
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Primary Memory
Definition
What: Consists of what we are aware of in the 'immediately present moment'; often termed 'immediate memory' or 'short-term memory'
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Brown-Peterson Task
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What: An experimental paradigm in which subjects are given a set of items and then a number. Subjects immediately begin counting backward by threes from the number. After a specific interval, subjects are asked to recall the original items
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Ecological Approach
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What: A form of psychological inquiry that
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