PSY 3010 Chapter 6 Study Questions and Correct Answers

Learning Long-term change in mental representations or associations due to experience. Cognitive Psychology a large body of research that addresses various mental phenomena that underlie human behavior, including perception, memory, forgetting, and reasoning. Cognitive processes the specific things people mentally do as they try to interpret and remember what they see, hear, and study Construction learners try to make some sort of reasonable sense of the many separate pieces of information they receive about various aspects of their world Constructivism A philosophy of learning based on the premise that people construct their own understanding of the world they live in through reflection on experiences Individual constructivism how learners idiosyncratically construct knowledge on their own, with little or no assistance from other people Neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience has enabled cognitive psychologists to test various hypotheses about the precise nature of human learning and thinking Information processing theory a perspective that compares human thinking processes, by analogy, to computer analysis of data, including sensory input, connections, stored memories, and output Memory learners ability to mentally save previously learned knowledge or skills over a period of time Storage the process of putting what is being learned into memory Encoding modifying the information received in some way Retrieval the process of recalling previously stored information Sensory register the component of the memory that holds the information you receive in more or less it original, unencoded form