Module 2 Flashcards
What is cognition?
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.
What is the three-stage model of memory?
Picture of the model.
What is the difference between echoic & iconic
sensory memory?
What is the Sperling task?
What does Sperling task measure?
Compare and contrast the whole, partial, &
delayed-partial-report procedures.
What is the cocktail party effect?
What is the dichotic listening task?
Compare & contrast the early-selection and
attenuator models of attention.
What factors influence divided attention?
Compare & contrast decay and interference theory.
What is the Brow-Peterson task?
What is the Waugh & Norman probe digit task?
What is the release from proactive interference?
What is the serial position effect?
What does the Sternberg task tell us?
How do we use experiments to generate& test
theories (models) of cognitive processes?
What is the structure of long-term memory?
What sort of knowledge is being stored for
long-term memory?
How is long-term memory being expressed?
What is dissociation
&
What is double-dissociation
What is pragmatic inference?
Ill-defined vs. Well-defined
Knowledge-rich vs. Knowledge lean
How do we represent & re-structure problems?
What is insight?
What is the computational approach to
problem-solving?
What are cognitive models?
Usefulness of cognitive models
&
ways to asses their utility.
