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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 believes that internal mental behavior can be scientifically studied using experiments. Cognitive psychology assumes that a mediational process occurs between stimulus/input and response/output. They are a...

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, even when the experimenter gives her feedback that she is incorrect. Chantal is displaying Perseveration Sperling's delayed partial report procedure provided evidence that information in sensory memo...

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 the different types of declarative (explicit) memory? What defines each subtype? Episodic: Memory for specific life events, spatial and temporal context (autobiographical) Semantic: Memory for facts and...

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, prioritize processing of one thing while neglecting another Alerting achieve and maintain alert state orienting directs between locations or targets executive controls voluntary functions Dichotic Listenin...

1-1. Which of the following statements best captures the scope of cognition?b. We use cognition when we acquire, store, transform, and use knowledge. 1-2. Which of the following statements is correct?c. "Cognitive psychology" is sometimes used as a synonym for "cognition." 1-3. Suppose that a psychologist writes an article on children's acquisition of gender stereotypes. Which of the following article titles would be most consistent with the cognitive approach?d. "Children's mem...

Perception use of knowledge to gather and interpret stimuli registered by your senses; combines bottom-up and top-down processing (illustrates theme 5) object or pattern recognition you identify a complex arrangement of sensory stimuli, and you perceive this pattern to be separate from its background. (illustrates themes 2, 4 and 5) distal stimulus the actual object out in the environment (ex. pen on a desk) proximal stimulus information registered on your sensory receptors (ex. the image tha...

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 to be true, plus a conclusion (some, none, always) "If I study for my exam, then I will get a good grade." Which type of deductive reasoning is this? Identify the antecedent and the consequent. con...

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 happened to us Distinguish between a category and a concept. Explain how they are connected. category: the physical category where we place objects that are related to each other (ex: the category frui...

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 environment and use of knowledge Cognition can include (but is not limited to) perception, memory, imagery, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making Cognitive Approach theoretical orien...

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