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Cognitive Psychology
Intro To Human Cognition
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
02/10/2011

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Behaviorism
Definition
The study of observable behavior
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Cognition
Definition
The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding, as well as the act of using those processes.
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Cognitive Science
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The scientific study of thought, language, the brain, of the mind.
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Memory
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The mental processes of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval and the mental storage system that enables these processes.
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Ecological Validity
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Generalizability to the real world situations in which people think and act.
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Reductionism
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Attempting to understand complex events by breaking them down into their components.
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Empiricism
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Insistence on observation as the basis for all science.
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Tabula Rasa
Definition
"Blank Slate"
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Verbal Learning
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Branch of experimental psychology that dealt with humans as they learned verbal material, composed of letters, nonsense syllables and words.
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Metatheory
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Set of assumptions and guiding principles
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Information Processing Approach
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Coordinated operation of active mental processes within a multi-component memory system.
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Encoding
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The act of taking in information and converting it into a usable mental form.
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Control Processes
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Abilities of the short, or working-memory system. Ex: Rehearsal, Coding, Decisions, Retrieval Strategies.
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Process Model
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A hypothesis about the specific mental processes that take place when a particular task is performed.
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Lexical Decision
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A timed task in which people decide whether letter strings are or are not English words.
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Verbal Protocol
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Procedure in which patients are asked to verbalize their thoughts as they solve the problems
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Top-down, Conceptually driven processing
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When existing context or knowledge has an influence on earlier or simpler forms of mental processes.
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Dissociation
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A disruption in one component of mental functioning but no impairment to another
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Double Dissociation
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Complete seperation of two mental functions as evidenced by two patients suffering reciprocal brain trauma of which neither shares disruption similar to the other.
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Cerebral Lateralization
Definition
Different functions or actions within the brain tend to rely more heavily on one hemisphere or the other or tend to be performed differently in the two hemispheres.
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Contralaterality
Definition
The receptive and control centers for one side of the body are in the opposite hemisphere of the brain.
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CT Scan
Definition
Computed Tomography
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MRI Scan
Definition
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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PET Scan
Definition
Positron Emission Tomography
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Event Related Potentials
Definition
The momentary changes in electrical activity of the brain when a particular stimulus is presented to them
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Retina
Definition
Three layers: Rod/Cones, Bipolar Cells, Ganglion Cells
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Fovea
Definition
Clearest spot of eye
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Sensation
Definition
The reception of stimulation from the environment and the initial encoding of that stimulation into the nervous system.
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Perception
Definition
Process of interpreting and understanding sensory information
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Saccades
Definition
Eye sweep from one point to another in fast movements
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Fixations
Definition
Pauses in Saccades
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Change Blindness
Definition
Failure to notice a change in visual stimuli when those changes occur during a saccades
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Inattentional Blindness
Definition
Failure to see an object we are looking at directly, even a highly visable one, because our attention is directed elsewhere.
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Visual Persistence
Definition
The apparent persistence of a visual stimulus beyond its physical duration.
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Span of Apprehension
Definition
Number of individual items recallable after any short display
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Whole Report Condition
Definition
When a subject reports any letters they can
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Partial Report Condition
Definition
Only one row is reported
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Icon
Definition
The actual memory residing in iconic or sensory memory
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Decay
Definition
Passive process of fading
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Interference
Definition
Forgetting caused by the effects of intervening stimulation or mental processing
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Beta Movement
Definition
The filling in by the brain of any visual gaps to produce the illusion of motion, as in a movie
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Phi Phenomenon
Definition
The perceiving of virtual movement, occurs when tracking an object
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Erasure
Definition
When the contents of visual sensory memory are degraded by subsequent visual stimuli
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Erasure
Definition
When the contents of visual sensory memory are degraded by subsequent visual stimuli
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Focal Attention
Definition
Term for mental process of visual attention, the part that processes the icons between saccades
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Trans-saccadic memory
Definition
Memory system used across eye movements, kinda puts it all together
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Templates
Definition
Stored models of all categorizable patterns
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Repetition Blindness
Definition
Tendency not to perceive a pattern, whether a word, a picture, or any other visual stimulus when it is quickly repeated
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Agnosia
Definition
Failure, or deficit, in recognizing objects
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Prosopagnosia
Definition
Disruption of face recognition
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Prosopagnosia
Definition
Disruption of face recognition
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Apperceptive Agnosia
Definition
A basic disruption in perceiving patterns
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Associative Agnosia
Definition
Agnosia in which you cannot associate the pattern with meaning
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Modality Effect
Definition
Superior recall of the end of the list when the auditory mode is used instead of the visual mode of presentation
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Suffix Effect
Definition
inferior recall of the end of the list in the presence of an additional meaningful nonlist auditory stimulus
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