practice questions Flashcards
what is the cognitive ethology approach in cognitive psychology?
a desire to understand human cognition and behaviour as it occurs within complex real-world situations
what is the cognitive neuropsychology approach to studying cognition and behaviour?
understand behaviour through brain-damaged patients
what is cognitive dissociation?
a feeling of discomfort you experience when presented with info/evid contrary to your beliefs or actions
what area of the brain seems to be involved in processing faces?
fusiform gurus
which of these influences the recall of faces?
familiarity, own group biases, attractiveness and depth of processing
what was the main finding of Freisen and king stone study surrounding the automaticity of gaze following?
there was evidence that gaze shifts are able to produce a shift in an adult’s covert attention
what does the salience/saliency hypothesis predict in visual attention?
attention is driven by low-level features such as colour or shape that stand out
what does lavie suggest about the nature of attention?
what and how much we process is dependent on the nature of the cognitive load of the task
what do researchers such as mackenzie and harris suggest about the relationship between cog ability eye movements and attention when driving?
individuals with superior cognitive ability scan the roadway more
what did bartlett suggest abt ebbinghaus self-study on remembering and forgetting strings of letters?
by controllling for experience, ebbinghaus methods to study memory where artificial
what is one main limitation of the multistore model?
the msm only accts for the amount of info and doesn’t acct for complexity in the type of info we process
what is autobiographical memory?
complex mental representation of the self in the past
what was one of the main findings in lotus and player study on autobiographical memory when witnessing a car accident?
ppts memory were influenced by the suggestion of the extremity of the accident
which two visual disorders provide a ‘double dissociation’ evidence for the perception-action theory of vision e.g. milner and goodale?
optic ataxia and visual agnosia
which of these is a model of time perception?
internal clock model
