Psyc 355 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

AU PSYC 355 Cognitive Psychology Test Bank For Cognition 10th Edition Thomas A Farmer Margaret W Matlin from chapter 1- 10 Athabasca University

How is Dichotic Listening studied? - by asking people to wear earphones; one message is presented to the left ear, and a different message is presented to the right ear. Summarize Kosslyn's classic research on distances in mental images and scanning times. Summarize Paivio's research using mental clocks and the angles formed by the two clock hands. Do these findings support the analog position or the propositional position? - Kosslyn -seems like ppl use analog code for simple figures, and ...

1. Which glial are responsible for maintaining the integrity of the extracellular fluid that surrounds neurons? A) Oligodendrocytes B) Astrocytes C) Microglial cells D) Stellate cells - B) Astrocytes 2. At what point do the sensory axons from the periphery enter the spinal cord? A) Central nuclei B) Ventral nuclei C) Dorsal root ganglia D) Ventral white matter - C) Dorsal root ganglia 3. Some neurons have long axons that stretch from one part of the CNS to another. What are these c...

AU PSYC 355 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY | RUNNING AHEAD THE EFFECT OF MNEMONIC TECHNIQUES ON RECALL | 2024 ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY

AU PSYC 355 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY RUNNING HEAD THE STROOP EXPERIMENT EMPIRICAL REPORT 2024 Athabasca University

Children who do not fit into Ainsworth's three original categories now are typically classified as: - disorganized secure avoidant resistant disorganized In Bowlby's attachment theory, the secure base refers to: - a special setting developed for needy, dependent infants a comfortable and safe home setting the evolutionary roots of how children become attached to caregivers the haven of safety a caretaker provides that allows a child to explore the environment the haven of safety...

the most common cause of wrongful convictions - eyewitness error the 3 stages of memory - encoding, storage, retrieval how does distance affect encoding? - the farther witnesses are from the target, the less accurate they are are identifying the target how does emotional state (stress in particular) affect encoding? - high stress = less accuracy in identifying people weapon-focus effect - tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention to itself, impairing a witness's abilit...

What Causes Attraction to Others?-Basic human need to be included -makes sense evolutionarily (basic human need) -no matter what our personalities are like -introverted people are uncertain about the benefits of interaction, but if you ask them how they feel after interacting with someone, they are happier than when they are alone -extroverts are much happier after they hang out with people Ostracism-Acts of excluding or ignoring -In experiments, ostracism is manipulated by: 1.) feedbac...

Nature of Families (what are they)2+ people, where one of which is the homeowner, related by birth, adoption or marriage, reside together Function of families1. Survival of offspring 2. Economic function 3. Cultural training and socialization Family dynamics perspectiveLooks at family as a social system and how it operates as a whole; Family members and relationships among them are interdependent and reciprocally influence each other Socializationprocess through which children acquire...

7 themes/ fundamental questions in dev psych1. how do nature and nurture together shape development 2. how do individuals shape their own development (active child) 3. in what ways is development continuous, and in what ways is it discontinuous 4. what are the mechanisms of change? 5. how does the sociocultural context influence development? 6. How do individuals become so different from each other? 7. How can research promote human health and well being?