This bundle contains everything you need to know for the fourth 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:
- 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
The motor system includes the components of the central and peripheral nervous system along with the muscles, joints and bones that enable movement. Motor control is the study of how body movements are planned by the brain and performed by the body. Woodworth stated that there were two phases: an impulse phase in which the brain calculates the
........Read moreA problem is a situation in which you have a goal but do not know how to achieve it. Thinking is a process of mental exploration of possible actions and states of the world. Problems can be well-defined problems or ill-defined problems. Well-defined problems are problems in which starting conditions, actions available and goals are all completely specified.
........Read moreDecision making is the cognitive process of choosing between alternative possible actions. The normative approach to decision making attempts to establish ideal ways of deciding what will give the best decision possible. Descriptive approaches aim to describe how decisions are actually taken as against how they should be made. A risk in decision making is the possibility of
........Read moreReasoning is the cognitive process of deriving new information from old information. Deductive reasoning is drawing logically necessary conclusions from given information. It’s going from the general to the specific. Inductive reasoning is the process of inferring probable conclusions from given information. It’s going from the specific to the general. Premises are statements assumed to be true from
........Read moreSyntax refers to the rules governing the ways words can be combined to create meaningful sentences. Content words are words that provide meaning to the sentence. Language production refers to a number of processes by which we convert thought into language output, in the form of speech, sign language or writing. Social cognition refers to the ways in
........Read moreSpeech perception is the process by which we convert a stream of speech into individual words and sentences. The objective when either listening or reading is to understand what is being communicated. Prosody refers to the rhythm, intonation and stress patterns in speech.
There are few clear boundaries between words in spontaneous speech and sounds blend together
........Read moreEmotion refers to a number of mental states that are relatively short-lived and are associated with an eliciting event. There are four key features of emotions:
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