Psy 252 Exam #3 Study Guide Questions With Correct And Revised Answers.
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PSY 252
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PSY 252
Psy 252 Exam #3 Study Guide Questions
With Correct And Revised Answers.
Cognition - answermental activity that includes the perception, acquisition, storage,
transformation, and use of information
Cognitive Psychology - answertheoretical approach to psychology that focuses on studying
individu...
Psy 252 Exam #3 Study Guide Questions
With Correct And Revised Answers.
Cognition - answer✔✔mental activity that includes the perception, acquisition, storage,
transformation, and use of information
Cognitive Psychology - answer✔✔theoretical approach to psychology that focuses on studying
individuals thought process and knowledge
Cognitive Science - answer✔✔interdisciplinary field that examines questions of the mind, focus
on internal representations of external world
Why learn about cognition? - answer✔✔Occupies a major portion of human psychology,
widespread influence on other areas, in psychology and beyond, cog psych proves an owners
manual for your mind
Cognitive Processes- Active vs. Passive - answer✔✔behaviorists-humans stimulus response,
wait for stimulus. Cognitive approach, we seek out information. Brain isn't a sponge. Brain is
synthesizing and transforming information.
Cognitive Processes- Efficiency & Accuracy - answer✔✔Memory ability is not perfect but
remarkable. Language development.
Cognitive Processes- interrelated - answer✔✔making decisions requires perception, memory,
general knowledge, language
Cognitive Processes- Bottom up and top down processing - answer✔✔Botton up: emphasizes
stimulus characteristics, perceive elements by starting with smaller more fine details, build
upward, not influenced by other items.
Wilhelm Wundt - answer✔✔introspection
William James - answer✔✔principles of psychology, observations of his own mind, tip of the
tongue phenomenon
Behaviorism- operational definition - answer✔✔specifically how something is measured/
defined
The Gestalt Approach - answer✔✔gestalt psychology, insight
Factors Contributing to the Rise of Cognitive Psychology - answer✔✔-dissapointment with
behaviorist approach
-linguistics; Noam Chomsky
-Human Memory research
-Childrens thought processes; Jean Piaget
The Information-Processing Approach - answer✔✔-mental processes are similar to the
operations of a computer
-info progresses through the cognitive system in a series of stages, one step at a time
Atkinson-Shiffrin model - answer✔✔-sensory memory
-short term memory (working mem)
-long term memory (
The current Status of Cognitive Psychology - answer✔✔-more complex models
-widespread influence on the discipline of psychology
-applications of the cognitive approach in therapy
-issues of ecological validity (conditions of study similar to real world; results have real world
meaning)
The computer metaphor - answer✔✔Structures and processes
Pure artificial intelligence - answer✔✔efficiency
Computer Simulation - answer✔✔computer modeling, take human limitations into account
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