Cognitive Psychology Quiz: Key Concepts

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<p>perceptual</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>self</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>operant</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>operant</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>children</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>language</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>food</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>actions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cognitive</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>paradigm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>flow</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>knowledge</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>mind</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>computers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>inputs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>mind</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Weber</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>structuralism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>classical</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>understanding</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>nerve net</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>synapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>face</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>sparse</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>bottom-up approach</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>stimulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>good continuation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pragnanz</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>cognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>similarity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>representation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>figure and ground</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>simplicity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>objects</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>perception</p> Signup and view all the answers

The study of mental processes related to understanding and experiencing life.

Study of the relationship between physical stimuli and sensory perception.

An early school of thought in psychology that used introspection to explore the structure of the mind.

The shift in psychology during the 1950s and 1960s from behaviorism to the study of cognition.

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior.

Mental representations of spatial information used to navigate the environment.

Technological methods used in contemporary cognitive psychology to study the brain.

Mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and senses.

Diagrams used to represent information processing steps in attention filtering.

Criticism that humans cannot be reduced to simple input-output mechanisms.

A perspective suggesting that cognitive processes are similar to computer processing.

The introduction of computers inspired understanding of mental processes beyond input and output.

A controlled environment used to study operant conditioning in animals, developed by B.F. Skinner.

Gradually training a subject to exhibit a desired behavior by reinforcing successive approximations.

The theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content, suggesting the mind is a blank slate.

Principle stating that behaviors followed by favorable outcomes are likely to recur, while those followed by unfavorable outcomes are less likely to occur.

A fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions in a field of study.

The challenge of determining the 3D shape of an object from a 2D image.

Perception that starts with the sensory input, building up to the final perception.

Perception influenced by expectations and prior knowledge.

Rules that explain how we organize visual elements into groups or wholes.

Neurons that activate when we perform an action or see someone else perform that action.

Assumes innate structural predisposition for processing stimuli.

Lines are seen as following the smoothest path.

Stimulus patterns are perceived as the simplest form.

Similar elements are perceived as grouped together.

Also known as the principle of Pragnanz; simplicity prevails in perception.

The mind fills in gaps to create complete objects.

Distinguishing between an object (figure) and its background (ground).

The basic building blocks of the brain that transmit information.

Cajal's theory stating that the nervous system is made up of individual neurons.

Branch-like structures that receive signals from other neurons.

Long extensions of neurons that send signals to other neurons.

The junctions where neurons communicate with each other.

Ways information can be represented by neurons: specificity, population, and sparse coding.

A network in the brain active during rest and self-referential thought.

The concept that brain function is organized in layers from simple to complex.