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What is the primary function of thinking in relation to stored knowledge?
According to Paul Ekman, how many basic emotions are there?
What is the primary function of imagination in cognitive processes?
What is the primary characteristic of emotion?
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What is the primary function of will (volition) in cognitive processes?
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What is a mental state?
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What is the primary difference between emotion and feeling?
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What are mental properties?
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What is the primary function of sensation in cognitive processes?
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Which cognitive process involves interpreting the meaning of stimuli?
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What role does attention play in cognitive processes?
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How does memory function in cognitive processes?
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Which type of cognitive process helps us ignore distractions while concentrating on a task?
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What outcome is primarily associated with memory in cognitive processes?
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Which cognitive process allows us to become aware of different stimuli, such as sight and sound?
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In the context of cognitive processes, which option best describes how perception works?
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Study Notes
Mental Phenomena
- Mental phenomena include mental processes, states, and properties
- Mental processes are formed through an individual's interaction with the environment
Cognitive Processes
- There are eight types of cognitive processes in psychology
- Sensation: the cognitive function that allows us to reflect on objects and phenomena through the senses
- Perception: the cognitive function that allows us to make out the meaning of information
- Attention: the cognitive function that allows us to selectively focus on a particular stimulus
- Memory: the cognitive function that allows us to code, store, and recover information from the past
- Thinking: the cognitive function that involves ideas, images, mental representations, or other hypothetical elements of thought
- Speech: the cognitive function, as a system of human sounds, written signs, and symbols used to represent, process, store and transmit verbal information
- Imagination: the cognitive function that allows us to form images, ideas, and sensations in the mind based on past perception
Emotions
- Emotions reflect the surrounding world
- Paul Ekman proposed seven basic emotions: sad, joy, anger, surprise, fear, disgust, contempt
- Emotion typically involves feeling and differs from having an overt or implicit engagement with the world
- Emotion (unconscious) is a short-term mental phenomena, feeling (conscious) is a long-term mental phenomena
Will (Volition)
- Will is a conscious management of behavior and activities
- It is expressed by the ability to make decisions and overcome internal and external difficulties on the way to achieving the aim
- Any voluntary action has its own motive (cause) that motivates (directs) and gives motivation (energy) to be active on the way to achieving the aim
Mental States
- Mental states are the condition or status of an entity or system at a particular time
- Emotional states include anxiety, frustration, stress, affect, etc.
Mental Properties
- Mental properties are typical characteristics of a person's peculiarities
- Examples of mental properties include character, temperament, ability, and skill
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Learn about mental phenomena, cognitive processes, and their types in psychology. Understand sensation, perception, attention, and other cognitive functions.
