Module 2

Question 1

What is cognition?

Answer 1

Refers to the internal mental processes that are involved in making sense of the enormous amount of information that is bombarding our brains on a moment-to-moment basis.

Question 2

What is the three-stage model of memory?

Question 3

Picture of the model.

Question 4

What is the difference between echoic & iconic
sensory memory?

Question 5

What is the Sperling task?

Question 6

What does Sperling task measure?

Question 7

Compare and contrast the whole, partial, &
delayed-partial-report procedures.

Question 8

What is the cocktail party effect?

Question 9

What is the dichotic listening task?

Question 10

Compare & contrast the early-selection and
attenuator models of attention.

Question 11

What factors influence divided attention?

Question 12

Compare & contrast decay and interference theory.

Question 13

What is the Brow-Peterson task?

Question 14

What is the Waugh & Norman probe digit task?

Question 15

What is the release from proactive interference?

Question 16

What is the serial position effect?

Question 17

What does the Sternberg task tell us?

Question 18

How do we use experiments to generate& test
theories (models) of cognitive processes?

Question 19

What is the structure of long-term memory?

Question 20

What sort of knowledge is being stored for
long-term memory?

Question 21

How is long-term memory being expressed?

Question 22

What is dissociation
&
What is double-dissociation

Question 23

What is pragmatic inference?

Question 24

Ill-defined vs. Well-defined

Question 25

Knowledge-rich vs. Knowledge lean

Question 26

How do we represent & re-structure problems?

Question 27

What is insight?

Question 28

What is the computational approach to
problem-solving?

Question 29

What are cognitive models?

Question 30

Usefulness of cognitive models
&
ways to asses their utility.