PSC exam 1

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What is Cognitive psychology?

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Uses objective measures of behavior and neural responses to scientifically test how the mind encodes, stores, and uses information about the environment.

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computational level of analysis

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What is the mind trying to compute and why? What’s it for?

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What is the algorithmic level of analysis?

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What are the rules,
mechanisms, and representations the mind uses?

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implementational level of analysis

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What happens in the
brain to enable cognition?

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SPEED ACCURACY LAB: Speed and accuracy trade off to some extent: if we decide to go fast, we’ll make more mistakes.

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Speed and accuracy trade off to some extent: if we decide to go fast, we’ll make more mistakes.

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What is the the subtraction method?

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By taking differences in reaction times, cognitive psychologists could isolate the time involved in a particular mental process.

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Cognitive science

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encompasses the many fields,
including cognitive psychology, computer science,
neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology

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Cognitive neuroscience

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links cognitive psychology to
brain structures and functions

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information theory

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Focuses on the processes by which information can be coded,
stored, transmitted, and reconstructed, supporting the study of
information processing.

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Classical Conditioning: Associate pairs of stimuli

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Associate pairs of stimuli