COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Question 1

What is cognitive approach?

Answer 1

Focused on how our mental processes affect our behaviour. Thinking, perception, memory, attention and language.

Question 2

Encoding?

Answer 2

Converting info received from senses into something that can be represented mentally

Question 3

Storage?

Answer 3

Holding info over a period of time in preparation for when it’s needed

Question 4

Retrieval?

Answer 4

Recovering stored info

Question 5

MSM

Answer 5

Describes memory in terms of info flowing through a system

Question 6

Sensory memory

Answer 6

Perceived through 5 senses
Duration 1/4 to 1/2 seconds
Capacity is all sensory experience
Encoding is sense specific

Question 7

LTM

Answer 7

Duration is unlimited
Capacity is unlimited
Encoding is mainly semantic

Question 8

Tulving episodic memory

Answer 8

Part of LTM, stores info about events in our life.

It is context dependent and time stamped.

Question 9

Tulving semantic memory

Answer 9

Part of LTM and stores info about the world like words and meanings.
Fragmented, independent and an encyclopaedia of facts.