introduction

Question 1

purves and lotto 2002

Answer 1

research into perception
used an image of a rubrics

looking cube to see how the brain was effected by different over lay of colors

the blue tiles on the top of the left cube (yellow overlay) and yellow tiles on the top of the right cube (blue overlay) are physically the same color

Question 2

define cognition

Answer 2

refers to processes relating to knowledge or information

Question 3

4 elements of cognition

Answer 3

1. acquisition
2. storage
3. transformation
4. use

Question 4

define cognitive psychology

Answer 4

the scientific study of how the mind works

sternberg (1999) - “how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information”

Solso (2005) - “the study of processes underlying mental events”

Question 5

solso (2005) definition of cognitive psychology

Answer 5

“the study of processes underlying mental events”

Question 6

sternberg (1999) definition of cognitive psychology

Answer 6

“how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information”

Question 7

information processing approach

Answer 7

used to understand mental processes

major goal - specify the processes and structures involved in cognition

assumption - processing in people resembles that in computers

Question 8

cognitive psychology - key concepts

Answer 8

1. top-down vs bottom-up processing
2. parallel vs. serial processing
3. hard wired vs. learned

Question 9

approaches used in cognitive psychology

Answer 9

1. experimental cognitive psych
2. cognitive neuropsychology
3. computational cognitive science
4. cognitive neuroscience

Question 10

experimental cognitive psych

Answer 10

if an experimental manipulation affects one type of task, but not another type of task we can start to make inference about the processes used by those tasks

Question 11

cognitive neuropsychology

Answer 11

if a patient with neuropschological has deficits in some tasks, but not other tasks we can start to make inferences about the cognitive processing systems used by those tasks

Question 12

computational cognitive science

Answer 12

using simulations of cognitive processes can be used to make inferences about how processing systems might interact and the constraints a system might have for the performance of cognitive tasks.

Question 13

cognitive neuroscience

Answer 13

allows correlation of brain activity location and timing with specific types of tasks.