Cognitive Psychology: Aiming to understand human cognition by observing the behaviour of people performing various cognitive tasks.
Cognitive Neuroscience: Using informaiton about behaviour and the brain to understand human cognition.
Bottom-up Processing: Processing that is directly influenced by environmental stimuli. (serial processing)
Serial Processing: One process is completed before the next one starts.
Parallel Processing: Processing in which two or more cognitive processors occur at the same time.
Top-down Processing: Stimlus processing that is influenced by factors such as an individuals past experiences.
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