Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
What is Cognitive Psychology?
|
the study of the acquisition, retention, and use of information in the context of perception, movement, attention, memory, emotion, language, decision making and problem solving
|
|
|
What are the domains of cognitive psychology?
|
perception, attention, memory, emotion and social cognition, symbolic representation, and executive processing. (Cognitive Neuroscience).
|
|
|
What is Behaviorist Psychology?
|
Stimulus-response chain to explain behavior.
|
|
|
Information Theory?
|
(channel capacity)-has led to the notion of mental "filters" to block out the irrelevant messages.
|
|
|
Gestalt school?
|
psychological phenomenon are better understood when viewed as organized wholes then when broken down into their components. (Gestalt means whole)
|
|
|
What is PERCEPTION?
|
Conscious awareness of the external and internal environment.
|
|
|
Qualities of each sensory modality in perception?
|
Vision: brightness, color, form, depth and motion.
Hearing: loudness, pitch and timbre. Somatic sensation: touch, pressure, pain. |
|
|
What is the major goal of perception?
|
to enable conscious consideration of objects and conditions in the environment.
|
|
|
3 General strategies underlying perception?
|
template matching, feature detection, and prior experience.
|
|
|
What is ATTENTION?
|
the focusing of mental "processing resources" on a particular physical stimulus, task, thought, memory, feeling, or other mental context.
|
|
|
Important aspects of attention are:?
|
kind of stimuli: exogenous vs. endogenous.
selectivity of attention: ability to attend to one source while ignoring others. enhancement of info. processing-faster responses mean more rapid neural processing. levels of attention: early (basic sensory analysis), middle (some semantic analysis) and late (full analysis of message and reaching understanding). |
|
|
Types of MEMORY?
|
sensory, short-term, rehearsal, chunking (working memory), LTM: episodic, semantic, perceptual priming, procedural.
|
|
|
4 phases of memory processing?
|
encoding, retrieval, consolidation & storage.
|
|
|
EMOTIONAL & SOCIAL COGNITION?
|
Assumptions about the existence of a discrete set of basic emotional states.
|
|
|
6 basic facial expressions?
|
angry, sad, happy, disgust, surprise, fear.
|
|
|
valence:
|
a continuum from the most negative to the most positive
|
|
|
arousal:
|
a continuum from the extreme calm to extreme excitement.
|
|
|
Theory of Mind?
|
refers to an individual's understanding that different people have different mental states, beliefs, and intentions and the ability to infer these.
|
|
|
SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION?
|
cognitive skills by which ideas are communicated symbolically (symbols for objects, conditions, concepts, words, numbers (object quantity))
|
|
|
EXECUTIVE PROCESSING?
|
cognitive functions that allow flexible and goal directed control. Decide between potential courses of behavior.
|
