Cognitive Terms

The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

• Memory

• Cognition

• Attention

• Selective Attention

A logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.

• Heuristic

• Insight

• Algorithm

• Representative heuristic

The inability to see a problem from a new perspective; an impediment to problem solving.

• Fixation

• framinF

• Mental set

• Belief perseverance

Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information

• bottom-up processing

• top-down processing

• selective attention

• Perception

the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input

• Change blindness

• Selective attention

• Cocktail Party Effect

• Inattentional blindness

the ability to see objects in three dimensions although the images that strike the retina are two-dimensional; allows us to judge distance

• Perception

• Depth Perception

• Visual Cliff

• Cocktail Party Effect

Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information.

• Schemas

• Perceptual set

• Change blindness

• Executive functions

the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

• perceptual set

• creativity

• schemas

• Ability to concentrate on one voice amongst a crowd

a failure to perceive objects that are not the focus of attention

• selective attention

• Perception

• inattentional blindness

• change blindness

an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought

• convergent thinking

• perceptual set

• Intuition

• perceptual set