Core studies - Cognitive area - Key info

Question 1

What is Cognitive Psychology?

Answer 1

Study of mental processes like memory, attention, thinking + perception - learn these through eperi. + senses

Question 2

2 Key principles in Cognitive Psychology:

Answer 2

• Mental (cognitive) processes are key to understanding human behaviour
• Mind can be seen as info processor (input processing + output info)

Question 3

What do Cognitive processes include?

Answer 3

• memory
• perception
• thinking
• attention

Question 4

What are our memories effected by?

Answer 4

by way, we feel + behave towards a stimuli

Question 5

Fill in the gaps:

We_ _ _ _ _ _ + _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ info diff. to e/o _ _ _ _ _ _ effects these.

Answer 5

Encode(learn) + retrieve(remeber/recall)

Context(where)

Question 6

Describe Models of memory:

Answer 6

1- SENSES
2- SENSORY REGISTER(SR)
3- SHORT TERM MEMORY (STM)
4- LONG TERM MEMORY(LTM)

A- attention
B- maintenance rehearsal
C- continual rehearsal
D- retrieval
⬇ = forgetting

 A          B
  ↓          ↓                   ↙D 1 ➞➞➞   2  ➞➞➞3  ➞C➞4
            ⬇            ⬇         ⬇