Information Processing Flashcards
what does IP stand for
Information Processing
what theories of IP are founding in psychology
- cognitive approaches
- ecological approaches
for ecological approaches, what is the research focused on
how motor systems interact most effectively with the environment to perform a goal oriented behavior
what approach is “perception”
ecological approach
for ecological approaches, organization of motor output is specific to…
task and environment
what is the cognitive approach
humans interact with the environment as processors of information
for the cognitive approach:
____, _____, _____ and _____ information
code, store, retrieve, and transformation information
for the cognitive approach, what needs to happen to environmental stimuli
receive, recognize, and identify environmental stimuli
in the cognitive approach, what does receiving, recognizing, and identifying environmental stimuli allow for
select and execute planned actions
what approach is involved with processing via series of “systems”
cognitive
what systems are included with the cognitive approach
attention, perception, short-term memory
how do the systems play into the cognitive approach
they transform/alter information systematically
IP in humans resembles…
computers
how would a human process information like a computer
- information presented combines with stored information
- central processor of limited capacity
what are the general stages of informational processing (6)
- define the task
- evaluate starting conditions
- select a plan
- generate movement instructions
- monitor outcome
- storage of motor memory
what are the two types of IP
series and parallel
what approach is perception based
ecological
what is an example of ecological approach of motor control
a person from Buffalo knows not to run on ice while a person from Florida would not know this (it is perception based).
what models are involved with serial processing
single channel
what is another word for serial processing
sequential processing
what is serial processing
one process is completed before the next starts
what type of IP processing involves processing one thing at a time
serial
what is another word for parallel processing
simultaneous
what models are involved for parallel processing
multi-channel or multiple resource models
what is parallel processing
some or all processes occur at same time
what type of IP processing involves processing more than one thing at a time
parallell
what are the three stages of IP
- stimulus identification
- response selection
- response programming
what do the three phases of IP (stimulus identification, response selection, and response programming) equate to
reaction time
what is reaction time
the combination of the three stages of IP (stimulus identification, response selection, response programming)
is the stimulus (input) part of reaction time
no
what is reaction time
the time it takes to react to a certain stimulus
what is the process involving the three stages of IP start to finish
- ) stimulus (input)
- ) stimulus identification
- ) response selection
- ) response programming
- ) movement (output)
what is the stimulus identification phase
detection of sensory stimuli and neural encoding of sensory information
what type of stimuli are involved with stimulus identification (5)
visual auditory kinesthetic proprioception touch
do the stimuli received during stimulus identification usually act in isolation
no, very rarely
what must the stimulus be recognized as
a pattern
what are the two substages of stimulus identification
stimulus detection
pattern recognition
what is stimulus detection
environmental stimuli is processed at different levels until memory is contacted
in the stimulus detection phase, what can affect reaction time (4)
stimulus clarity
intensity
modality
complexity