This bundle contains everything you need to know for the third interim exam of Introduction to Psychology for the University of Amsterdam. It uses the book "Cognitive Psychology by K. Gilhooly, F. Lyddy, and F. Pollick (first edition)". The bundle contains the following chapters:
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
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Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of how people and animals process information. It studies how we acquire information, store information in memory, retrieve information and work with information to reach goals. In all these cases, individuals deal with internal or mental representations.
There is a long history of cognitive psychology:
Perception is our sensory experience of the world. Sensation entails the processes by which physical properties are converted to neural signals. Perception does not give us a faithful image of the real-world. There are three fundamental concepts of perception:
Attention is a limited resource that is deployed to facilitate the processing of critical information. One basic taxonomy of attention states that there are two types of attention:
Memory allows us to encode, store and retrieve information. Encoding is the function by which information is coded in a form that allows it to be stored in memory. Storage is the function by which information is retained in memory. Retrieval is the function by which information is recollected as needed. There are several types of memory:
The case of H.M demonstrates three important aspects of long-term memory processes:
Amnesia refers to a pattern of memory loss affecting elements of long-term
........Read moreLearning refers to the processes of acquiring information for mental storage and later use. Forgetting refers to processes leading to a loss of ability to retrieve previously learned information. The first step in learning new information is to encode that information in an internal representation in working memory. This representation needs to be processed further in order to
........Read moreConcepts are mental representations of classes of items (e.g: dogs). Imagery is the mental representation of sensory properties of objects, experiences as like perceiving the object but with less vividness than in reality. There are different approaches to concepts.
The definitional approach looks at the definition of an object in order to form a concept. The concepts
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