Concept Map of Memory System

Team A

PSYCH/640

02/20/17

• Cite and explain a research study that applies to each process.

  1. Study # 1- Visual Perception Study. 1981 by Burgess and Judy et al.

  2. Method: Ideal observer model Template based detection procedure for imaging (Burgess, 2011).

  3. The ability to maintain attention on the stimuli greatly affects the quality of perception. Internal and external noise cause a reduction in perception abilities. Also, unfamiliar visual scenes reduced visual perception by 40%. This is the result of the lack of templates for those unfamiliar scenes (Burgess, 2011). When a template was present, cognitive decision making was sharp in the very beginning of the visual process.

  4. Study # 2- Language

Method: Cognitive Linguistics;1988 (Dwight Bollinger & Charles Fillmore) Hypothesized that speech utterances are learned and mentally stored. Grammar rules, idioms, etc. are all built over time. Environmental input determines language, absent any disorder.

• Explain how this research is important to the study of knowledge representation.

• Cognitive functions perceptions are vital. Concepts are psychological signs, containing memory, reasoning using and understanding language. Categorizing is a function in concepts dealing with knowledge (Smith, E. E., & Medin, D. L., 1981). In what way people are competent to conceptualize from previous knowledge and why do individuals do not begin over if challenged with faintly different circumstances? Categorization is the development by which matters are retained in classes of understanding. It is imperative to study knowledge representation to determine what happens to memory over time (Smith, E. E., & Medin, D. L., 1981). Furthermore, how people represent the gist of an experience, the nature of representation of categorical knowledge, and how does this affect the way the world is perceived. For example, recalling a wedding that was attended, one may recall who the bride and groom, the location and some of the guest as well as and some of the things that transpired (Anderson, J. R., 2010). “You would probably be hard pressed, however, to say exactly what all the participants wore, the exact words that were spoken, the way the bride walked down the aisle, and so on—although you probably” (Anderson, J. R. ,2010, p. 115).

REFERENCES

Anderson, J. R. (2010). Cognitive psychology and its implications (7th Ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

Burgess, A. (2011). Visual Perception Studies and Observer Models Imaging. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. 41(6) p. 419-436

Harris, C. (2011). Language and Cognition. The Cognitive Neuroscience Movement. P. 1-7

Michelon, P. Dr. (2006). What are cognitive abilities and skills, and how to boost them...? Retrieved from http://sharpbrains.com

Smith, E. E., & Medin, D. L. (1981). Categories and concepts (p. 89). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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