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Suppose that you are calculating your recent expenses, and you are adding up five 2-digit numbers in your head. As you begin to calculate the final sum, you feel that you've reached the limits of your memory. This strain can be traced to the difficulty of keeping all this material in your working memory. According to Chapter 4, working memory is especially important because it keeps some items active, so that we can use these items when we are working on a relevant task. According to the disc...

Your text describes the occurrence of a "cognitive revolution" during which dramatic changes took place in the way psychology was studied. This so-called "revolution" occurred parallel to (and, in part, because of) the introduction ofcomputers The main point of the Donders' reaction time experiments was tomeasure the amount of time it takes to make a decision. Ebbinghaus' "memory" experiments were important because theyplotted functions that described the operation of the mind....

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 BEHAVIORISM - EARLY TO MID 1900SJohn B. Watson -external observable behavior COGNITIVE REVOLUTION - 1950S TO TODAY -internal mental processes. (detective solving a crime) Following in the footsteps of Dav...

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 may not be as separated as previously thought. Whose research supports this change in the perception of separation of short-term and long-term memory? Rangantah and D'Esposito The following statement ...

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...

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...

Which of the following is NOT part of the process of cognition: a. acquiring information b. processing information c. subtracting information d. making decisionsc. subtracting information Which of the following is true about the field of Cognitive Psychology? a. the study of cognition is made up of multiple fields and subfields of scientific research b. the study of cognition is mostly isolated from other fields of scientific research c. cognitive psychology is not considered a true science d. ...

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...