Chapter 15 - Cognition

Question 1

What is a psychological construct?

Question 2

What is cognition

Answer 2

• describes thought processes, how we come to know the world.
• act or process of knowing, used to refer to the process of thought

Question 3

What are 4 characteristics of human thought?

Answer 3

1. Human thought is verbal

LANGUAGE
2. Language provides the brain with a way to CATEGORIZE information

3. Language provides a means of organizing time (planning)
4. Language has syntax

Question 4

What is syntax?

Answer 4

A set of rules about putting words together to create meaningful utterances.

• other animals do not combine focalization a to make meaning
• gives us flexibility
• influences very nature of our thinking and allows higher thought

Question 5

What is split brain?

Answer 5

Surgical disconnection of the 2 hempispheres in which the corpus callosum is cut

• left and right hemispheres engage in fundamentally different thinking