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What: The potential functions or uses of stimuli in the real world
Why: In contrast to theories about how we process stimuli to make them meaningful affordances focus on the information that is present in the environment itself. |
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What: Short for binary digit. An event with two possible outcomes contains one bt of information.
Why: Important in information theory it gives a way to think about and quantify the amount of information entering the brain |
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What: The information provided by a particular event is inversely related to its probablility of occurence
Why: The brain acts as an information processing machine |
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What: Based on the idea that information-processing is restricted by channel capactity
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| What: Thew maximum amount of information that can be transmitted by an information processing is resticted by channel capacity |
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| What: The act of observing one's own thioughts and feelings as they seem to oneself |
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| What: Consists of what we are aware of in the 'immediately present moment'; often termed 'immediate memory' or 'short-term memory' |
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| What: An experimental paradigm in which subjects are given a set of items and then a number. Subjects immediately begin counting backward by threes from the number. After a specific interval, subjects are asked to recall the original items |
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| What: A form of psychological inquiry that |
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