Cognitive Psychology 2024

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Mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing remembering and communicating information.

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Cognitive Psychology

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Directed thinking is also known as

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convergent thinking

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The visual, mental representation of an event or object is called:

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an image

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A label or mental grouping of similar objects, events ideas and people are called:

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concepts

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Prototypes are:

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A typical member of a category or mental grouping.

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Retreiving, changing and reorganizing information stored in memory to create new information is called:

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thinking

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Information from the senses comes into this type of memory before it passes to short term memory.

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sensory memory

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This is part of working memory: it can hold about 4 to 7 items at a time before it must be transferred to long term memory.

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short term memory

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A sudden awareness of a solution to a problem. The "Aha!" moment.

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insight thinking

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A rule of thumb used to make decisions based on prior information. A shortcut.

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heuristic