Chapter 1 - Intro to Cognitive Psych Flashcards
Define cognitive psychology.
A branch of psychology that is concerned with the process involved in acquiring, storing and transforming information.
List some main aspects of cognition, and how they INTERACT with each other.
Visual Perception -> attention -> learning -> stored knowledge -> long-term memory
Use visual perception to take in information from the printed page
You need to pay attention to the content of the book/attend to the content of the book in order to learn.
If you have stored knowledge relevant to the material in the book, your reading benefits.
To test whether your learning has been effective and has led to long-term memory, test on your knowledge of the material contained in this book.
What are textisms?
Abbreviations and symbols used in place of whole words in texting.
What are some of the findings linked to textisms?
Children aged 10-12 who were best at using textisms were also the best at ordinary spelling and writing as it can lead children to focus on the sounds of the words and their spellings.
Young adults who texted the most performed the best when writing informally about their happiness, but they performed the poorest when writing a formal letter to a company.
Extensive texting can possibly promote an excessively ‘loose’ and informal approach to written communications.
Textisms are found to attract more attention and processing effort than words or symbols strings.
Introspection refers to __________.
A careful examination and description of one’s own inner mental states and thoughts.
Why is introspection no longer a popular method used in cognitive psychology?
We are largely unaware of many of the processes influencing our own thoughts
Our reports of our conscious experience may be distorted (deliberately or otherwise). For example, we may pretend to have more positive thoughts about someone than is actually the case.
It is not possible to check the accuracy of inner thoughts.There is a delay between having a conscious experience and reporting its existence. As a result, we may sometimes forget part of our conscious experience before reporting it.
We are generally consciously aware of the outcome of our cognitive processes, rather than the processes themselves. Eg: When asked: “Who is the president of USA?” → can rapidly answer that it’s currently Donald Trump, but without any clear idea of how you arrived at the answer.
