Assumptions of Cognitive Psychology

· Mental processes exist

· People actively process information

· There are two main dependent measures that we need to understand how cognitive processing occurs; these are reaction time (RT) and proportion correct.

7 Themes in Cognitive Psychology

• Attention
• Automatic and conscious processing
• Data driven and conceptually driven processing
• Knowledge representation
• Metacognition
• Unconscious processing
• Levels of analysis in cognitive science

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