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Define Metatheory:
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Set of assumptions and guiding principles.
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What are the 7 themes of cognition?
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1. attention.
2. Data driven vs conceptually driven processing. 3.Representation 4. Implicit vx explicit memory 5. metacognition 6. Brain 7. Embodiment |
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explain the difference between implicit and explicit memory:
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explicit memory is directly remembering an experience. Implicit memory is the processes in order to remember that memory that are below our level of conscious awareness.
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explain embodiment:
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the way we think and represent information, makes us think we have to interact with the world.
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define response time:
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Time it takes for someone to respond to a stimulus
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what is the problem size effect?
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As problem increases response time/curve on a graph increases.
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person who is assoc with the earliest use of accuracy
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Ebbighaus
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What is channel capacity and the object assoc with this idea that was used as an analogy?
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The max amount of things we can do/think about at one time. Computer, telephone.
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what was the dominant approach in cognitive psyc until the mid 1970's?
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information processing.
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General process model:
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Environmental input--> Encode stimulus --> search --> decision --> response
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What is another term for a nonword?
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a pseudoword
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describe the 'word frequency effect'
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It takes significantly longer to judge words of lower frequency than those of high frequency.
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describe what parallel processing means:
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Multiple mental processes can occur silmutaneously- in parallel.
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Explain dissociation using an example:
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Disruption in 1 component of mental function but no impairment of any other. Example KC whose episodic memory but nothing else was affected.
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what is double dissociation?
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When the impairment of once process accompanies impairment in another.
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