Cognitive psychology: definitions
- Created by: sarah_mocha
- Created on: 30-03-16 17:39
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- Cognitive definitions
- Information processing
- the mind is the major influence on our behaviour and it works as an input - output system
- (Input): the mind takes in information from the environment
- the mind processes it
- (Output): behaviour or reaction
- the mind processes it
- (Input): the mind takes in information from the environment
- the mind is the major influence on our behaviour and it works as an input - output system
- Cognition + Cognitive psychology
- Cognition: the mental processes needed to make sense of the world
- Cognitive psychology: the mind is the main influence on our behaviour and what we do is determined by our perception of events and thought processes
- Memory
- Memory is the term given to the structures and processes involved in the storage and subsequent retrieval of information
- Computer analogy
- The cognitive explanation is often referred to as the computer analogy because both:
- receive information (via keyboard or a disk vs. the senses)
- store and process information (saving to hard-drive vs. saving as a memory and accessing that)
- output information (images on the screen/ printout vs. behaviour e.g crying, talking, laughing)
- store and process information (saving to hard-drive vs. saving as a memory and accessing that)
- receive information (via keyboard or a disk vs. the senses)
- The cognitive explanation is often referred to as the computer analogy because both:
- Forgetting
- the loss of information already encoded as a memory
- Storage
- the ability to retain memory traces / information in the brain
- Retrieval
- being able to obtain information already encoded that is in storage
- Information processing
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