EXP3604 (Cognitive Psychology) Q&A Bundle

Attention a concentration of mental activity that allows you to take in a limited portion of the vast stream of information available from both your sensory world and your memory; attentional capacity has limits; uses both top-down and bottom-up processing; attention and visual phenomena (figure-gro...

Cognitive Psychology subcategory of experimental psychology that focuses on studying mental processes that allow us to interpret the world Metacognition thinking about thinking Cognition mental activity such as acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge or information from the envi...

Categories Mental representation of a class or individual; the meaning of objects, events, and abstract ideas Problems with concepts & categories approach on knowledge "Necessary & Sufficient conditions" don't hold Some category members are better than others Alternative Approached to Categoriz...

Attention concentration of mental activities using several cognitive processes allows process selective aspects of sensory world - A lot of information + limited information processing capacity = need for attention Selective attention ability to focus on some things while ignoring others, prioritiz...

What is metacognition? Metacognition is your knowledge about and control of your cognitive processes ("thinking about your own thoughts"). What is a memory strategy? A memory strategy is when we perform mental activities that can help to improve your encoding and retrieval (effort to essentially ...

What are the different types of nondeclarative (implicit) memory? What defines each subtype? Procedural: Memories for skills and habits, doing Classical conditioning: Associations between stimuli Priming: Implicit memory for recent and frequency stimuli Nonassociative learning: Reflexes What are th...

Differentiate between conditional reasoning and syllogism. Think of examples for each. conditional reasoning: type of deductive reasoning task that describes the relationship between conditions (if...then...) syllogism: type of deductive reasoning task that consists of two statements we must assume ...

What is attention? Attention is the means by which we actively process a limited amount of information (think like a selective window) four main functions of attention signal detection and vigilance, search, selective attention, and divided attention signal detection and vigilance we try to detect...

Chantal has frontal lobe damage. She is doing a problem-solving task in which she has to choose the red object out of many choices. She can easily complete this repeatedly, but when the experimenter asks her to choose the blue object on a new trial of the task, she continues to choose the red one, e...

Suppose that you are given several pieces of information, and you must infer whether the logical consequence of that information is correct. The task you are performing is called deductive reasoning. Here is a reasoning problem: If Mary is a psychology major at your college then she must take stati...

Memory strategies Conscious mental activities you perform that can help improve your encoding and retrieval divided attention Having to divide your attention between two tasks Research found that background music/talking impacted introverts more than extroverts You tend to perform poorer on divid...

One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that people are not conscious they are using it Recent research has concluded that while there is strong evidence to support that there is a separation of short-term memory and long-term memory, there is also evidence that these functions ma...

What is the relationship between cognition, cognitive psychology, and the cognitive approach? Cognition is the specific processes in the brain, cognitive approach is the theory attempting to analyze cognition, and cognitive psychology is the study of the brain processes. The cognitive approach belie...

Differentiate between semantic memory and episodic memory. semantic memory refers to our organized knowledge about the world, but it doesn't specify how we came about that information; episodic memory contains information about events that happened to us, and emphasizes when/where/how that event ha...

We partitioned the history of cognitive psychology into 3 periods. What were they? introspection, behaviorism, cognitive revolution What features defined each of the three periods of cognitive psychology? INTROSPECTION - LATE 1800S Wilhelm Wundt & Edward Titchener -observing your own thoughts BEHAV...