Sensation/Percepton
In cognition, what is the process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information?
Perception!
Long term memory
A system for holding and manipulating newly acquired information prior to its use and for preparing that information for long term storage
Working memory
The general term for representation and manipulation of information is ____.
Thinking
A famous psychologist who argued that children's thinking develops in defined stages and is fundamentally different than adult thinking.
Piaget
What is the process of receiving raw, unorganized information about the immediate environment directly from sensory organs?
Sensation
In this theory, memories gradually fade away over time.
decay theory
An encoding strategy in which items that are similar in some way are grouped together
chunking
The set of rules for organizing various units like words, clauses, or sentences, within a language
Syntax
What is the popular analogy used in cognitive psychology to describe the mind and its functions?
Computer model
In this type of processing, perception begins with what is already stored in memory based on prior experiences and knowledge
Top-down processing
What are the two main categories of Explicit Memory?
Episodic memory and semantic memory
A memory tactic that uses simple repetition of details
rehearsal
What is the name for a mental shortcut that helps us surpass analytical thinking and jump right to immediate judgments or automatic responses, described in the reading as a "rule of thumb" or a "shortcut"
Heuristic
This study illustrated the phenomenon of inattentional blindness... participants were asked to watch a video where two teams passed a ball back and forth and were told to count how many passes were shown...
The invisible gorilla study
In the visual realm, responding neural cells are called ____, because they react only to a single highly specific characteristic of a stimulus
Feature detectors
Observing an old photo of someone you haven't seen in a while, allows you to better recognize them in a crowd some days later... this kind of memory occurs when some kind of stimuli improves recall
Primed memory
A type of memory task that requires memorization in a particular sequence...
Serial recall
Our brains’ fast, automatic, unconscious, and emotional response to situations and stimuli. Example: absentmindedly reading text on a billboard
System 1 Thinking
What is one major takeaway or implication from the "Cell Phone Induced Driver Distraction" paper?
responses may vary
This mental framwork organizes past experiences to help you interpret and predict new situations, like knowing what to expect at a birthday party...
Schemas
In this kind of interference, earlier memories disrupt the storage or retrieval of later memories
proactive interference
The maximum amount of information managed in a task at any one time, according to Miller's research
Seven, plus or minus two!
This theory, suggests that all humans are born with an innate ability to acquire language? What psychologist put forth this theory?
Universal Grammar; Chomsky
The theory in psychology that distinguishes two thought processes in humans by describing them as unconscious and conscious.
Dual process model