Psychology for HCI Flashcards
Experiential cognition
Intuitive, fast thinking
Reflective cognition
Mental effort, slow thinking
Directed attention can lead to …
change blindness
Proprioception
detecting the position of your body in space
Interoception
What is inside your body
Gestalt principles
Tendency to close up shapes and draw missing lines
Feeling that something continues behind other object
Foreground and background can look like something
We tend to see objects that are grouped close together as one unit
We group things that are more similar
Incidental learning
Mainly recognition
Intentional learning
Goal-oriented
Human information processing model
Input > encoding > comparison > response selection > response execution > response
Reflective cognition
Considering the consequences of an action