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Cognitive psychology

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Where we came from and where we're going
Cognitive psychology is the study...,
What is cognitive psychology,
How does cognitive psychology foc...
67  cards
Sensation and perception
A topic can be understood by stud...,
Physiological levels of analysis,
Proposed that signals could be tr...
65  cards
Visual object recognition Week 3
All sensory information is coded ...,
The brain receives an exact copy ...,
Our brains receive only a small s...
32  cards
Cognitive neuroscience: week 2
Field concerned with stueying the...,
A topic can be understood by stud...,
A network of continuously interco...
71  cards
Conceptual knowledge
Knowledge that enables people to ...,
A mental representation of a clas...,
Groups of objects that belong tog...
75  cards
Attention. Week 4
Theoretical brain mechanism which...,
Focusing on specific features obj...,
The ability to focus on one messa...
46  cards
Short term and working memory
The processes involved in retaini...,
_____ is active any time some pas...,
The model proposed by atkinson an...
73  cards
Long-term memory: structure
A memory mechanism that can hold ...,
_______ memory covers a span that...,
A classic experiment by bb murdoc...
109  cards
Everyday memory and memory errors
Two important characteristics of ...,
The empirical finding that people...,
The idea that memory is enhanced ...
45  cards
Pain and language
What are the 4 types of sensory r...,
Monitor temperature located in th...,
Monitor changes in the distortion...
34  cards
Reasoning and decision making. Problem solving and creativity
What are the two types of reasoning,
Inference of a problematic conclu...,
Correct answer to a logical problem
56  cards

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