General

Question 1

What is serial processing

Answer 1

Processing in which one process is completed before the next one starts

Question 2

What is parallel processing?

Answer 2

Processing in which two or more cognitive process occur at the same time

Question 3

What is bottom up processing?

Answer 3

Processing that is directly influenced by environmental stimuli. The external environment influences your perception

Question 4

What is top down processing?

Answer 4

Stimulus processing that is influenced by factors such as individuals past experience and expectations. Background knowldge influences perception

Question 5

What is modularity?

Answer 5

The assumption that the cognitive system consists of fairly independent or separate modules or processors, each specialised for a certain type of processing

Question 6

What is mental representation?

Answer 6

The sense in which properties of the outside world (e.g colours, objects) are simulated and interpreted by cognition

Question 7

What is neural representation?

Answer 7

The way in which properties of the outside manifest themselves in the neural signal (e.g different spiking rates for different stimuli)

Question 8

What is rate coding (relating to neurons)

Answer 8

Greater rate of neutrons response is used to code information

Question 9

What is temporal coding?

Answer 9

Pattern of firing determines coding. Greater synchrony of several neutrons is used to code information

Question 10

What is domain specificity?

Answer 10

-the notion that a given module responds selectively to certain types of stimuli but not others