intro to cognitive psych Flashcards
(11 cards)
what is cognition
thinking or information processing in the mind
what are the two types of cognition/thinking
1)automatic and unconscious (below our level of awareness)
2)deliberate and conscious
what sort of processes to cognitive psychologists study?
-perecption,attention,memory,problem solving
-ways in which individuals aquire,store and retrieve memory
-ltm and stm and how lang is acquired,processed and used in communication
what is a similarity between cognitive and bio psych
they both identify the importance of the brain but the extent to which they emphasise its importance is different (biospych emphasises its importance more)
what is a difference between cognitive and bio psych
-bio psych focuses on the physical processes+ structures and emphasises the role of biology and neuroscience
(REDUCTIONIST VIEW OF BEHAVIOUR)
-cognitive psych focuses on the mental processes and how info is stored, processed and utilised by the mind
(FUNCTIONALIST/HOLSITIC VIEW OF BEHAVIOUR)
what are the 4 grounding assumptions of cognitive psychology
1)the proximal cause of behaviour is cognition
2)the mind emerges from the brain but you cannot understand the mind simply by studying the brain (cannot reduce cognition to biology)
3)the mind is a bit like a computer (takes in, processes, stores and then utilises info)
4)the real world we experience is actually a model in our mind (what we take to be reality is a construct in our minds/we choose it to be reality)
describe the computer analogy
if we know what has been inputted into someone’s brain and we can measure the output, then we can start to understand /research the processing (the in between)
what are the three things affecting memory
attention, rehearsal and retrieval
what is the primacy effect
better recall for items at the beginning of a list
What is the recency effect?
better recall for items at the end of a list
