The Assumptions

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The Assumptions

• Mental Processes exist
• Mental Processes can be studied scientifically
• The mind is an active information processor
• The mind is what the brain does

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Seven Themes in Cognition

• Attention
• Automatic vs. conscious processing
• Data-driven vs. conceptually-driven processing
• Representation
• Implicit vs. explicit memory
• Metacognition
• Brain

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The Information Processing Approach

• We are active information processors.
• Information processing happens in a number of
  independent stages, or cognitive modules.
• The time to do a task is the sum of the times to
  complete each stage.

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The Lexical Decision Task

• Is it a word?
• HOUSE
• BLINK
• SPALK

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