Language

Question 1

what are the 3 domains of psycholinguistics

Answer 1

Acquision/learning
comprehension
production

Question 2

What is acquisiotion

Answer 2

how do children acquire language

Question 3

What is cognitive neuroscience

Answer 3

aims to understand human cognition by combining info from behaviour and the brain

Question 4

What are single unit recordings

Answer 4

a micro electrode is inserted into the brain, records info from a single neuron

Question 5

what is the late selection theory

Answer 5

meaning is accessed before filtering and processing

Question 6

what is ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG)

Answer 6

event related potentials (ERP’s) refer to average EEG responses that are time locked to more complex processing of stimuli
SCAN

Question 7

what is cognitive neuro psychology

Answer 7

studying cognitive brain functioning in brain damaged patients

Question 8

what is computatonal cognitive science

Answer 8

constructing computational models to understand human cognition

Question 9

goal of the serial processing approach

Answer 9

specify linear processes and structures involved in cognition

Question 10

artificial intelligence?

Answer 10

constructing computer systems that produce intellegent out comes

Question 11

what is computational modelling

Answer 11

programming computers to model and mimic aspects of human cognitive functioning

Question 12

what is bottom up processing

Answer 12

externally driven attention + influenced by environmental stimuli

Question 13

what is top down motivation

Answer 13

internally driven motivation

Question 14

assumptions of the serial processing approach

Answer 14

processing in people resembles computers

Question 15

what is serial processing

Answer 15

one process is done then the next can be started

Question 16

what is cognitive science

Answer 16

develop theoretical framework by forming and testing computational models intended to be mental operations

Question 17

what is top down processing

Answer 17

influenced by factors such as the individuals knowledge and expectations

Question 18

what is parrallel processing

Answer 18

being able to do two or more cognitive processes at once

Question 19

what does functional magnetic resonance imaging do?

Answer 19

measures blood oxygen level

Question 20

what is binocular disparity

Answer 20

because eyes see different perspectives, b d is difference between two images

Question 21

what is the cornea

Answer 21

the transparent window that covers the front of the eye, transmits and focuses light into the eye

Question 22

what is the iris

Answer 22

coloured part of eye, regulates amount of light that enters the eye

Question 23

what is the lens

Answer 23

the transparent structure in the eye that focuses light rays into the retina

Question 24

what is the pupil

Answer 24

determines how much light is let into the light, dilates,

Question 25

ehat is experimental cognitive psychology

Answer 25

applies experimental methods to the study of behaviour and the process that underlie it q

Question 26

what is the retina

Answer 26

nerve layer at the back of the eye, senses light and creates impulses that are sent through the optic nerve to the brain

Question 27

2 main stroop effects 1) speed of processing theory

Answer 27

the interference occurs because words are read faster than colours named

Question 28

stroop effect 2 ) selective attention theory

Answer 28

the inference occurs because naming colours requires more attention than reading words