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Cognitive psychology - correct answer️️The scientific study of the mind What does the mind do? - correct answer️️1)Creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking and reasoning 2)Is a system that creates representation of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals 1st indicates cognition-mental processes such as perception attention, memory);mind's control in mental abilities 2nd indicates how t...

The two divisions of Long Term Memory - correct answer️️implicit and explicit OR non-declarative and declarative memories Part of the brain where binding of related pieces of information for long-term memory takes place - correct answer️️hippocampus Reduced response after repeated exposure to a stimulus - correct answer️️Habituation e idea that you should take the test in the same room that you learned the material, so that you may recall better. - correct answer️️Co...

cognitive psychology - correct answer️️- refers to all processes by which sensory input is transmitted, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used innate knowledge - correct answer️️- belief that humans are born already possessing knowledge about the world - emphasized by Aristotle - nature tabula rasa - correct answer️️- blank slate; everything we know, think, feel, and all behaviors are learned after birth - emphasized by Plato - nurture structuralism - correct a...

Reed conducted research demonstrating that people had difficulty locating a parallelogram in their mental image of a six-sided star. This research - ANSWER.b. supports the idea that we use verbal descriptions to store mental images. The research on cognitive maps suggests that - ANSWERc. people create cognitive maps from several successive views, if the area is very large. Which of the following students provides the best summary of the research on imagery and distance - ANSWERc. Kristen: ...

Which property of words contributes to the word frequency effect? - how often a word is used within a language While studying in a noisy coffee shop, a student is able to focus solely on their textbook, tuning out the surrounding conversations and background music. Which cognitive phenomenon does this scenario illustrate? - Selective attention A person is enjoying a day at the beach. They hear children playing see the ocean waves feel the warm sun taste the salty air and smell sunscreen. W...

Watson became dissatisfied with the method of analytic introspection in which context? - Results were interpreted in terms of invisible inner mental processes Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany? - Wilhelm Wundt Which example below best demonstrates state-dependent learning? - Although Emily doesn't very often think about her first love, Steve, she can't help getting caught up in happy memories when "their song" (the...

Test Bank for Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind Seventh Edition by Daniel Reisberg (Author) (All chapters covered) (Complete Guide with answers) (Graded A+)

perception - ANSWERSexperiences resulting from stimulation of the senses bottom-up processing - ANSWERSprocessing that begins with stimulation of receptors recognition-by-components theory - ANSWERSproposes that we perceive objects by perceiving elementary features called geons geons - ANSWERSperceptual building blocks that can be combined to create objects principle of componential recovery - ANSWERSif we can recover (see) an object's geons, we can identify the object top-dowm...