Flashcards in Chapter 1 Deck (11)
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What is cognition?
set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge
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Cognitive Psychology
An approach that aims to understand human cognition by the study of behaviour
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What did greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato try to understand?
how humans interact with their
environment
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Introspection
examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings
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Problems with introspection
way we introspect things may not be
the way that they are
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McGurk Effect
What we see overrides what we hear.
E.g 'bah' = 'fah' when we see the f sound being produced
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Why does the McGurk effect occur?
The brain is making sense of conflicting information
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Mental chronometry
use of response time in perceptual-motor tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal sequencing of cognitive operations
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Association
connection between conceptual entities or mental states that results from the similarity between those states or their proximity in space or time
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Dissociation
demonstrating that a lesion to brain structure A disrupts function X but not function Y
to identify neural substrates of a brain function
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