Cognitive Psychology 2023

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

• Development Psychology

• Cognitive Psychology

• Biological Approach

• Mental Disorders

Directed thinking is also known as

• convergent thinking

• belief preservation bias

• heurisitics

• insight thinking

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

• an symbol

• a heuristic

• an image

• a rule

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

• confirmation bias

• convergent thinking

• hippocampus

• concepts

Prototypes are:

• A typical member of a category or mental grouping.

• a specific method for solving a problem.

• the ways words are arranged to make sentences.

• an algorithim.

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

• representative heuristics

• phonemes

• thinking

• mental set

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

• long term memory

• mental set

• sensory memory

• semantic memory

The way words are arranged in which to make sentences is called:

• phonemes

• morphemes

• a strategy

• syntax

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.

• mental set

• algorithim

• short term memory

• sensory memory

Rules are:

• a statement of relationships between concepts.

• memory that involves language units.

• basic sounds in language

• trying each possible solution to a problem to solve it.