Cognitive Psychology

Gestalt means

• unified whole

• fractured whole

• imagery perception

• cognitive perception

Schemas are

• video tapes and photographs of people, places, or things

• 'packets' of knowledge that correspond to frequently encountered people, objects or situations.

• pathways in the brain that enable us to see, hear, and remember pieces of unusual information

• one of the many ineffective tricks our brain uses to locate and remember past information

Upon entering a bathroom for the first time you will recognize it is a bathroom but noticing the color of the walls and the layout of the room requires

• schema

• recognition

• memory

• encoding

Loftus' research showed that the most problematic source of inaccurate eyewitness testimony was from

• witnesses conferring with each other about the events

• leading questions by police and lawyers

• underdeveloped schema leading to the witness not understanding their surroundings

• witnesses not wanting to participate in legal proceedings

Long term memory is defined as

• is the process of repeatedly verbalizing or thinking about a piece of information

• the unlimited capacity memory store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time.

• bringing a thought or idea learned previously, and thus stored in memory into conscious awareness

• The retention of encoded material over time.

Short Term Memory

• The retention of encoded material over time.

• the process in which information in your memory can be recalled

• the part of the memory system where information is stored for roughly 30 seconds

• a way of organizing information into familiar groupings.

___________. is an ability that allows people to remember nearly every event of their life with great precision.

• hydrocephalus

• Hyperthymesia

• supranuclear palsy

• dementia

Semantic memory

• Taking a photograph in one's mind of a specific event

• general knowledge that people remember, like counting by 10s

• memory of a specific event that took place in the person’s presence or through experience

• only is lost after a bout of anmesia

Implicit memory –

• a memory that consists of the skills and procedures one has learned

• general knowledge memory of a skill or fact that you know but don't remember learning

• taking a photograph in one's mind of a specific event

• contains only memories of visual stimuli

Perception is

• how our brain interacts with our nervous system

• how we relay information to others

• how we comprehend objects and events in the world around us

• what our eyes see