Week 9 Cognition

Question 1

The process of cognition

Answer 1

Sensation of information are received by our brains, filtered through emotions and memories, and processed to become thought

Question 2

What are concepts?

Answer 2

Categories of linguistic information, images, and ideas or memories

Question 3

Concepts can be concrete or abstract - true or false?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What are concepts used for?

Answer 4

Used to see relationships among different elements of experience

Question 5

What is the best example of a concept

Answer 5

A prototype.

Question 6

What is a schema?

Answer 6

A mental construct consisting of a collection of related concepts

Question 7

What happens when a schema is activated?

Answer 7

We automatically make assumptions about the person or situation

Question 8

What is role schema?

Answer 8

Making assumptions about how individuals in certain roles are

Question 9

What is event schema?

Answer 9

A set of routine or automatic behaviors

Question 10

Event schema can vary - true or false?

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Why are event schemas hard to change?

Answer 11

Because they are automatic