Cognitive approach definitions

Question 1

Digital technology

Answer 1

electronic tools & devices that generate, store or process data

Question 2

Cognition

Answer 2

all mental activities associated w thinking, knowing, remembering & communicating

Question 3

Social media

Answer 3

websites & applications that enables users to create & share content or to participate in social networking

Question 4

Cognitive processing

Answer 4

refers to any of the fundamental functions involved in the acquisition, storage, interpretation, transformation & use of knowledge

Question 5

Availability heuristic

Answer 5

describes the tendency to use info that come to mind quickly & easily when making decisions about the future

Question 6

transactive memory systems

Answer 6

transactive mem systems are expected to be more than just the sum of total memories stores by the members of the group. They also include knowledge of where info can be found & how to access it. Collaboration between group members may be essential to the retrieval of info

Question 7

Leading question

Answer 7

questions that are suggestive in some way; could include post-event info which facilitates schema processing & may influence the accuracy of recall

Question 8

Reconstructive mem

Answer 8

the theory that views mem to be an active process of recreation of past events as opposed to a passive process of retrieval

Question 9

Memory

Answer 9

an info processing system that works constructively to store, encode & retrieve info

Question 10

decision making

Answer 10

the process of identifying & choosing alternatives based on the values & preferences of the decision maker

Question 11

Thinking

Answer 11

process of using knowledge & info to make plans, interpret the world, & make predictions in general

• there are different components of thinking; problem-solving, decision making & creativity