Module 1 - Intro
This branch of psychology studies how the mind acquires, processes, stores, and uses information, even though those mental processes cannot be observed directly.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
The kind of evidence neuroimaging methods provide about the link between brain activity and cognition.
"What is Correlational?" or
"What is Correlational evidence?"
The process by which the visual system combines sensory input with prior knowledge.
“What is perception?” or
“What is perceptual processing?”
The ability to focus on some information while ignoring other information.
“What is selective attention?”
The experimental task used by Donders to estimate the duration of mental processes.
What is reaction time?
The early school of psychology that aimed to break conscious experience into its components.
"What is Structuralism?"
What EEG directly measures when recording brain activity.
“What is electrical activity?”
The problem that arises because a single two-dimensional retinal image can correspond to many different three-dimensional objects.
“What is the inverse projection problem?”
The type of visual search in which reaction time increases as more distractors are added.
What is conjunction search?”
The attentional model proposing that selection occurs early, before semantic processing.
“What is Broadbent’s model?” or
"What is an early filter model?" or
“What is early selection?”
This key assumption allows cognitive psychologists to study the mind scientifically, even though mental processes cannot be observed directly.
"What is inference?" or
“What is inference from behavior?” or
“What is inferring mental processes from observable behavior?”
etc.
The type of learning demonstrated in studies showing that associations can be formed without conscious awareness, originally based on study designs with dogs.
“What is classical conditioning?”
The influence of prior knowledge, expectations, and experience on how sensory input is interpreted.
“What is top-down processing?”
The failure to detect changes in a visual scene when attention is not directed to the changing object.
“What is change blindness?”
The type of attention that is automatically drawn by a sudden or salient stimulus.
“What is exogenous attention?”
The key reason behaviorists rejected introspection as a scientific method.
“What is subjectivity?”
The type of evidence that allows researchers to make causal claims about brain–function relationships.
“What is double dissociation?”
One of the Core 5 Gestalt principles that says perception is biased to group elements that are close together as belonging together.
“What is proximity?”
The failure to notice an unexpected stimulus when attention is focused elsewhere.
“What is inattentional blindness?”
What focused attention is required for according to Feature Integration Theory.
“What is feature binding?”
What behaviorists explicitly excluded from scientific psychology.
“What are mental processes?” or
"What is the mind?"
What fMRI measures as an indirect indicator of neural activity.
“What is blood oxygenation?” or
"What is the BOLD signal?"
The visual pathway primarily involved in identifying what an object is.
“What is the ventral pathway?”
The reason that information cannot all be processed at once is due to this.
“What is limited capacity?” or
“What are limited attentional resources?”
The perceptual ability that allows objects to be seen as stable despite changes in retinal input.
“What is constancy?” or
“What is perceptual constancy?”
The concept demonstrated by Tolman’s maze studies that directly challenged behaviorism.
“What is a cognitive map?” or
"What is an internal map?" or
“What is a internal representations?”
What EEG provides very well, but fMRI does not.
“What is high temporal resolution?”
The Gestalt foundational assumption that perception favors the simplest and most stable overall organization.
“What is the Law of Prägnanz?”
The theory explaining why attentional selection sometimes occurs early and sometimes late.
“What is perceptual load theory?”
Who showed that previously studied material can be relearned more quickly, supporting the value of spaced studying?
“Who is Ebbinghaus?”