Cognitive psych Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

PS260: Cognitive Psychology Exam, Answered-Cognitive Psychology - the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating Two key ideas of the cognitive revolution - 1. Science of psychology CANNOT study the mental world directly 2. Psychology MUST study the mental world if it wants to understand behaviour Important points of definitions of cognitive psychology - - includes REPRESENTATIONS - knowledge that we already have in memo...

A summary for the Cognitive Psychology exam. Based on the required reading material/articles. Can also be used as notes for preparation for each individual problem.

PS260 TEST BANKS: Cognitive Psychology, Answered-1. Which of the following topics is NOT commonly studied within cognitive psychology? ANS: A DIF: Easy REF: The Scope of Cognitive Psychology OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Understanding 2. Cognitive processes are NOT necessary for which daily activity? ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: The Scope of Cognitive Psychology OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Applying 3. Alyssa wants to be a psychologist but is unsure which topic within psychology most interests her. Which of t...

the key structural components of neurons are (Ans- cell body, dendrites, axon Paul Broca's and Carl Wernicke's research provided early evidence for what? (Ans- localization of function a synapse is (Ans- space between neurons action potentials occur in the (Ans- axon When recording from a single neuron, stimulus intensity is represented in a single neuron by the (Ans- firing rate of the action potentials. Which of the following statements best describes how neurons com...

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

Test Bank for Cognitive Psychology 3rd Edition by E. Bruce Goldstein, Johanna C. van Hooff Chapter1-13

General Knowledge Chapter 8 Episodic memory : Contains information about events that hapenned to us, implies a personal experience. Semantic Memory : Organized knowledge about the world. Does not specify how we acquired that information. Lexical, Language Knowledge Category : Set of objects that belong together Concept : Mental representation of a category Situated Cognition Approach : We make use of information in the immediate environment or situation. Our knowledge depends on the co...

TEST BANK FOR COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS, 9TH EDITION BY ANDERSON

cognitive psychology (Ans- the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind Mind (Ans- 1) creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning 2) a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals Cognition (Ans- the mental processes such as perception, attention, memory, etc. reaction time (Ans- how long it takes to respond...