1.4.1 Internal Mental Processes (Co)

Question 1

What processes are seen as interconnected?

Answer 1

Perception
Attention 
Memory 
Language
Thinking

Question 2

These processing systems allow us to do what?

Answer 2

Make sense of and respond to the world

Question 3

What is perception?

Answer 3

The process of taking in and interpreting information from our senses

Question 4

What is attention?

Answer 4

The process by which we focus on certain sources of information rather than others

Question 5

What is memory?

Answer 5

The process of retaining and recalling information

Question 6

What is language?

Answer 6

The study of communication and thinking in relation to language

Question 7

What is thinking?

Answer 7

The process of manipulating information in the mind in order to reason, problem solve and make desicions

Question 8

What does this assumption say?

Answer 8

Behaviour can be explained in terms of internal mental processes

Question 9

Why is the internal mental processes assumption used to explain?

Answer 9

The behaviours we show as a result of decision making

Question 10

According to internal mental processes explain an aggressive teenage boys behaviour:

Answer 10

• boy perceives someone approaching
• pays attention to the angry look on the persons face
• remembers last time someone looked like that he got beat up
• communicates by shouting
• decides to fight back and punched the person

Question 11

According to internal mental processes explain the reaction to a fire alarm:

Answer 11

• hear the fire alarm
• pay attention to the noise
• recall the sound is associated with danger and remember where the fire exits are
• make the decision to leave the building