COGNITION
the mental activity associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is cognition?
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
What is concepts?
the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas within any discipline, including art, music, architecture, mathematics, science, and engineering
What is creativity?
Deals with auditory and verbal information. Inner ear which holds auditory information in a speech based form for a brief period and the articulatory control process (or inner voice), which is involved in the rehearsal of verbal information, helping to refresh an maintain it in the phonological store
What is phonological loop?
Size of storage
What is capacity?
The mental frameworks or structures that help us organize and interpret information about the world
What is schema?
Allows us to make sense of new situations by relating them to prior experiences and their existing schemas without changing those schemas
What is Assimilation?
Has a specific meaning: It is learning that has continued over time
What is memory
The first stage of the multi-store model, in it's raw form
What is sensory memory?
Simple repetition or rote memorization
What is maintenance rehearsal?
the mental process of organizing sensory input into meaningful patterns
What is perception?
New categories created because our current classification is inadequate
What is Accommodation?
The first step is for the brain to receive information in a usable form to maintain it in consciousness or prepare it for storage
What is encoding?
Fleeting visual images in sensory memory are called
What is iconic memory?
A condition characterized by partial or complete loss of memory
What is amnesia?
A German word meaning "pattern" or "whole"
What is Gestalt?
Trial and error, algorithms, and heuristics
What is problem solving?
Memories we retain without conscious effort and often without awareness
What is implicit memory?
The way information is transformed and placed in the memory
What is encoding?
A brain condition known as dementia in which thinking, memory, and behavior begin to deteriorate
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Our brains have a tendancy to organize stimuli into groups
What is grouping?
Closely related to problem solving. Doesn't always involve a problem
What is decision making?
STM: part of the memory system that holds small amounts of information for a short duration
What is short term memory?
Combining or grouping bits of related information
What is chunking?
The type of information a memory holds
What is content?