Summary: Applied Cognitive Psychology

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• 1 Introduction

• 1.1 PowerPoint week 1

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• What is the core of the ACP model?

  Outcome = Cognition x Environment

• 2 Fundamentals of Cognition

• 2.1 PowerPoint week 2

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• What does the easy Human Information Processing model look like?

  • Perceptual encoding
  • Centrol processing 
  • Responding   

• What does the harder Human Information Processing model look like?

  Elements:
  

  • Sensory register
  • Perception
  • Thought decision making
  • Working Memory
  • Long term memory
  • Attention resoources
  • Response selection
  • Response execution        

• What are examples of low level phenomena of perception?

  Low level perception: "the neural-based computations building unconscious or self-generated inferences during the processing of sensory events"
  

  • Hering grid: lateral inhibition in retina
  • Motion-after-effect: adaption to motion
  • Color-after-effect: adaption to colors

• What is the bottom-up effec based on? And name two examples.

  On saliency (brightness, contrast)
  For example:
  

  • White flower in green field
  • Alarm

• What are top-down examples?

  When the information quality is low, top-down influences will be high
  12, I3, 14 vs A I3 C
  Fase-Face
  Obama

• What is Broadbent's Attentional Filter?

  Sensory register -> perception of HMP
  Early selection on attended channel and physical properties (pitch, color, loudness)

• What are four categories regarding Attention resources?

  • Overt
  • Covert
  • Endogenous (top-down): color-changing card trick, intentional, controlled, conscious, limited
  • Exogenous (bottom-up): traffic signs
  • Visual search
  • Pop-out/Conjunction
  • Attentional Control vs Automatic

• What is the Working Memory?

  • Short term memory
  • Small capactity (7 +- 2, Miller's Law)
  • Short duration (max. 20 seconds) 
  • Primacy and recency effect

• What influences the way from working memory to long term memory?

  Chunking (PASAAICIBF vs FBI CIA ASAP)
  Interference (stroop)