Cognitive Psychology

What is cognitive psychology?

• refers to all processes by which sensory input is transformed, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used.

• the study of the physical operations that support people's movement and use of boyd-parts.

• the study of interaction among people and communities, organization-non-organizational

• the study of the mental operations that support people's acquisition and use of knowledge.

If Ozi sees his groupmate's smile and believes it means the he is happy to see him, what stage of social information processing would Ozi be in?

• Encoding

• Mental representations

• Response accessing

• Evaluation

• Enhancement

Which of these descriptions most accurately relates to the traditional role cognitive psychologists typically play in psychology?

• Studying in the ways cognitive processes change throughout the lifespan.

• Studying mental processes and how they relate to perception, attention, and decision making.

• Studying the mental processes involved in thinking about others and their social interactions

• Studying the association between mental processing and brain activity.

The measure used by researchers that indicates the speed with which someone completes a task is known as

• an independent variable

• self-report

• accuracy

• reaction-time

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

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.

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

The best definition of Cognitive Psychology would be

• The study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think.

• The study of how the brain functions

• The analysis of how the brain, neurotransmitters, and other aspects of our biology influence our behaviors, thoughts, and actions

• The analysis of sensation within the neural function of the brain.

Transforming incoming information into a usable form is the stage of memory called

• organization

• storage

• encoding

• retrieval