Chapter 1
The study of mental processes that support acquisition and use of knowledge.
What is COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY?
The structure of a neuron that receives incoming neurochemical signals.
What are DENDRITES?
Conscious experiences as a result of sensory stimulation.
A mechanism of Broadbent's model that selects information for recognition processing (recognition processing completed by the detector).
What is a FILTER?
Visual memory store that holds content for up to 1 second in duration.
What is ICONIC SENSORY MEMORY?
A cognitive scientist who compared simple and reaction time responses.
Who is DONDERS?
A temporary reversal in the polarity of the interior of an axon from -70mV to +40mV.
What is an ACTION POTENTIAL?
What is TOP-DOWN processing?
A memory store that holds information for a up to 15-30 seconds.
What is SHORT-TERM MEMORY?
A cognitive scientist who completed the whole-report methodology and partial-report methodology and discovered there was an iconic sensory memory store.
Who is SPERLING?
Type of long-term memory for facts.
What is EPISODIC MEMORY?
A neural representation of an object based on the neural firing of one type of neuron.
What is SPECIFICTY CODING?
Better recognition of briefly presented letters when they are presented as part of a word than a nonword.
What is the WORD SUPERIORITY EFFECT?
An aspect of the phonological loop that helps to maintain information in the phonological store.
What is the ARTICULATORY REHEARSAL MECHANISM/PROCESS?
A brain imaging tool that involves injection of a radioactive substance.
What is POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRPAHY (PET) scan?
A neural network that is active during mind-wandering.
What is the DEFAULT MODE NETWORK?
Detecting words from a continuous acoustic signal.
What is SPEECH SEGMENTATION?
Failure to perceive a stimulus that one is looking at.
What is INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS?
Damage to this brain lobe can result in perseveration.
What is the FRONTAL LOBE?
A task used to examine attentional processes through the simultaneous presentation of an auditory message in the right ear and a different message in the left ear.
What is a DICHOTIC LISTENING TASK?
What is the PARIETAL LOBE?
Special neurons that are active when carrying out an action or watching another carry out an action. These neurons might be responsible for understanding intention in others.
What are MIRROR NEURONS?
An error in combining free-floating features of an object during the focused attention stage (From Treisman's Feature Integration Theory).
What is an ILLUSORY CONJUNCTION?
Better memory for short words than long words.
What is the WORD LENGTH EFFECT?