Thinking About Thinking
The scientific study of how the mind acquires, stores, and uses knowledge
What is cognitive psychology?
The process of selecting specific information for further mental processing
What is attention?
Internal codes or symbols that represent information in the mind
What are mental representations?
The approach that compares the mind to a system that processes information
What is the information-processing approach?
The movement that marked the return to studying mental processes
What is the cognitive revolution?
The term used to describe the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge
What is cognition?
The process of making sense of sensory input from the environment
What is perception?
Categories of knowledge formed by shared features
What are concepts?
Studying cognition by measuring accuracy, reaction time, or errors reflects this level
What is the behavioral level of analysis?
The school of thought that rejected the study of the mind
What is behaviorism?
Cognitive psychology studies internal mental processes rather than only this
What is observable behavior?
The process of storing and retrieving information over time
What is memory?
Organized frameworks that shape expectations and understanding
What are schemas?
Examining brain structures and neural activity reflects this level
What is the biological level of analysis?
The interdisciplinary field that blends psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and computer science
What is cognitive science?