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Cognitive psychology

This class was created by Brainscape user Harriet Wylde. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

By: Harriet Wylde
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Decks in this class (16)

Perception 1- sensation & perception
Sensation,
Perception,
Distal stimuli
14  cards
Perception 2- brightness & colour
Stimulus for vision overview,
What type of properties are brigh...,
Ways that light interacts with ob...
23  cards
Perception 3 - depth & visual scene analysis
Difficulties making perceiving ma...,
How do we perceive depth,
Perceiving depth monocular cues
21  cards
Perception 4 - loudness and pitch
Perceptual definition of sound,
Physical definition of sound,
Amplitude
20  cards
Perception 5- localisation & auditory scene analysis
Localising sound binaural cues,
Localising sound monaural cues,
Intramural time differences itds
18  cards
Attention
Focussed selective attention,
Divided attention,
Cocktail party problem
21  cards
Language and reading- word recognition
Mental lexicon,
Eye tracking,
Lexical decision task
22  cards
Language and reading- sentence processing
Syntax,
Tree diagrams for sentences,
Syntactic ambiguity
23  cards
Language and reading-discourse processing
Logical inferences,
Bridging inferences,
Elaborative influences
24  cards
Memory 1
Free recall tests,
Cued recall,
Rego
23  cards
Memory 2
Primacy,
Recency,
Serial position curve
20  cards
Memory 3
Ebbinghaus 1885 memory studies,
Ebbinghaus forgetting function,
Duration of long term memories
10  cards
Cognition & emotion 1
Cognition emotion as separate topics,
Affect,
Emotion
18  cards
Thinking 1- problem solving
Three crucial elements to a problem,
Behaviourist,
Gestaly
16  cards
Cognition & emotion 2
Does affect require cognition,
Mere exposure experiment zajonc,
Primacy debate
24  cards
Thinking 2- decision-making
What causes a bias in human reaso...,
The representativeness heuristic ...,
The representativeness heuristic ...
9  cards

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