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Best describes cognitive psychology?
The scientific study of mental PROCESSES
Why is the measurement of behaviour during the performance of cognitive tasks important for cognitive psychology?
It provides data regarding underlying MENTAL PROCESSES
The idea that perception involves actively creating internal representations of the world implies that these reputations are?
SUBJECTIVE models of the physical world
Which of the following distinguishes, bottom-up processing from top-down processing?
Depends exclusively on SENSORY data
What type of processin is illustrated by visual illusions?
Top down
Text gradients, according to Gibsons (1966), theory of direct perception, is an example of
A data-driven notion of distance
According to Gregory’s theory, perception is best conceptualised, as
Indirect & active
An object recognition, which of the following theories cannot adequately account for non-canonical representations of prototypical objects?
Template matching
Top-down processing is illustrated by which type of attention
Voluntary attention
What type of information processing occurs before Attentional Bottleneck
Parallel
Broadbent field theory, which stimuli is more likely to be noticed when presented to the unattended channel during to dichotic listening task
Words spoken by a different speaker
According to try Treisman’s (1964), theory of selective attention, at what level of processing the selection of information occur
 Semantic (select word/information based on meaning)
Who is theory accounts for the processing of information, not processed at a conscious level having an effect on behaviour?
Deutsch & Deutsch’s late selection model
What memory store is the information kept in the sensory modality, which it was detectors?
Sensory
In memory, converting written words into sounds, in example of
Encoding
A recall task categorised by a pattern of errors that is based on the stimulus. Acoustic properties suggests what information was coded.?
Phonologically
The working memory model suggests that the rehearsal a Visually included information is in carried out by
The Visup-spatial sketchpad
How can the Recency effect be explained?
Information that is still present on the STM store
Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?
No, in the Paris is the capital of France
An example of non-decorative long-term memory?
Perceptual priming
A deficit in forming NEW memories
Amterograde amnesia
Part of brain associated with executive function
The prefrontal cortex
Type of behaviour associated with executive function
Novel situations requiring behavioural flexibility
Norman and shallice is 1986, supervisory attention model, what are schema control units
Internal representations of ACTIONS
