Chapter 1
A person who adheres to the perspective in psychology that focuses on observable behaviors.
What is a behaviorist?
A system that receives and processes input from stimuli in the environment.
What is a sensory system?
A research procedure where subjects are given two tasks to perform at once - to compare with performance on one task alone - to examine interference due to the second task.
What is the dual-task method?
The process of inputting information into memory.
What is encoding?
A memory deficit due to a brain lesion or deterioration.
What is amnesia?
The study of internal mental processes.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Understanding the environment through global knowledge of the environment and its principles.
What is top-down processing?
Failure to notice a change in the environment.
What is inattentional blindness?
The process of outputting information from memory.
What is retrieval?
An area of the brain important for memory encoding and retrieval.
What is the hippocampus?
A method of gaining knowledge in a field that relies on observations.
What is the scientific method?
The idea that we make unconcious inferences about the world when we perceive it.
What is the theory of unconscious inference?
Interference in response due to inconsistency between the response and the stimulus.
What is the simon effect?
The very short-term memory storage of unprocessed sensory.
What is sensory memory?
A memory deficit for information or experiences encountered after a brain lesion.
What is anterograde amnesia?
A person whose work in linguistics had a fundamental impact on the early development of cognitive psychology.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
A perspective in psychology that focuses that focuses on how organizational principles allow us to perceive and understand the environmen.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
Processing due to an intention that consumes cognitive resources?
What is controlled processing?
A process of organizing information that allows more items to be stored in memory.
What is chunking?
The general knowledge structure for an event or situation.
What is a schema?
The principle that the key to understanding new things is through systematic observation.
What is empiricism?
The pathway in the brain that processes “what” information about the environment.
What is the ventral pathway?
Processing that is not controlled and does not tax cognitive resources.
What is automatic processing?
Memory for facts or knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
A memory result where subjects have false memories for an event based on suggestive information provided by others.
What is the misinformation effect?