Cog Psyche Exam 1

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What is a defintion of Cognitive Psychology?

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The study of human mental processes and their role in thinking, feeling and behaving.

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What is the problem of defination and measurement?

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It studies covert processes and mental operations

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Explain the Information Processing Approach

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The relation and analogy that the mind is the software and the brain is the hardware -- IMPORTANT*** Information = the reduction of uncertainty... and the importance is on meaning.

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Elaborate on the adaptive function of mental operations

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the assumption held by the field of cog psychology that the mind and brain emerged through evolution to give us survival potential.

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What are the problems most studied in Cog psyche?

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Perception, Consciousness, Intelligence, Knowledge, Thinking, Language, Representation, Memory, Learning.

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What is a Mental Representation?

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An internal form of code -- you have an idea of what a shoe looks like

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What are the Stages of Processing?

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This refers to the steps required to form, modify, and use mental representations.

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What is the difference between Serial and Parallel Processing?

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Serial processing involves one line of processing while Parallel involves multiple ones.

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Explain the idea of Hierarchial systems in regard to the mind.

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Looks at the tasks analogus to the body -- mind can divide into branches of perception, memory, and motor output.

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Cognitive Architectures

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The difference between a working memory and a long term memory. The design or organization of the mind's information processing componenets and systems.

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What are the various definations of Consciousness?

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Self-knowledge, sentience, Informational access

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Name and explain the two parts of the Nervous System

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The Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System -- Central cannot regenerate--it pertains to the brain and spinal cord.

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Brain's Primary Functions

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1) Create a sensory reality
2) Integrate information
3) Produce behavior

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Cerebal Cortex

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Bark of brain. Outer neural covering.

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Parietal Lobes

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Deals with the manipulation of objects in space.

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Oceipital Lobe

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Deals with vision processing.

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Limbic System

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Ancient part of brain.

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Cerebellum

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Deals with motor cordination

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Basal Gangalia

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Deals with motor processing and reward processing.

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Eight Principles of Nervous System

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1) Information comes in; goes out
2) Sensory and motor divisions exist
3) Brain's circuits X
4) Assemetrical, symmetrical
5) excitation, inhibition
6) multiple levels
7) organized hierachily + parallel
8) localized and distributed

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Research Methods...

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Method of Subtraction, Behavioral measures, verbal protocals, and physiological measures

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What is the Method of Subtraction?

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Used to isolate a single stage of cognitive processing. Assumption of Pure Insertion (1,2,3)

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Explain Sensation

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Transduction --> Physical energy --> Mental representation

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Visual Consciousness

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awareness of the nature and physical locaiton of physical object

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Visual Pathways

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Cornea + lens

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Damage to occipital cortex

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Person is not being aware of something. -- Blindsight!

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Pattern Recognition (process)

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thing between transduction and perception + meaningful object

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Object Recogntion (Process)

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Understanding what object is

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Agnosia

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Stimulus perceived as physical property but not RECOGNIZED as meaningful

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Appreciative Agnosia

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Object recog fail = can't identify functional features.

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Two levels involved in pattern recognition

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First = Critical visual features
Second = Critical functional features

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Word Superirority Effect

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Single word recoged faster when in context of whole word.

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Context Effect

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Reading speeds and recog easier when in context of whole words (more the better)

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How are objects represented?

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Objects perceived stored as list of "DISTINCTIVE FEATURES"

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Modularity?

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Set of processes seperate cog processes -- localized -- operates holisticaly

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Prosopagnosia

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selective inability to recognize face that does not involve vision difficulty

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What is Co-Articulation?

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Each segment of speech provides clues about more than one phenome

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Attention

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Selecting certain stimuli and excluding others

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Attention Theories

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Early Selection, Attentional Filter, Late Selection, Capacity Theories

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Early Selection

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Attentional filter works AFTER sensory input but BEFORE semnatic processing

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Attenuation Theory

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Rebukes early selection -- lowers sensory input but person can still hear their name

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Late Selection

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Happens after sensory input and semantic processing BUT BEFORE response selection

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Priming

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Study to prove late selection -- people were flashed word that gave them bias

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Visual Attention

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Likened to a spotlight

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Executive Attention

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Overides automated behaviors

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Perceptual Binding

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features distributed in different regions of brian are brought together.