cognition Flashcards
Cognition
concerns itself with thinking, memory, and internal thought processes. if you see any of those words, the answer is “cognitive”. the information-processing metaphor studies how the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. basically, the outside stimulus goes into an extremely short-term (second or two, photographic) sensory memory that is either iconic (visual) or acoustic (sound). if important enough it goes to short-term memory, which holds 7 items *plus or minus 2). the short-term memory is stored in the hippocampus in the limbic system. if thought important enough, it is transferred to the long-term memory, which is not localized but is dispersed throughout the brain, and different bits are brought together in associative areas of the frontal lobe for use. if you bring something forward from memory, it goes into the working memory, where it is retrieved. memory loss can be info never encoded, lost from short-term memory, encoded improperly, or retrieved incorrectly, as with misinformation effect.
