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the way that info from the environ. is transformed into an experience (via sense organs) - AnswerPerception what's actually out there in the real world - Answer-distal stimulus causes pattern on sensory organ - Answer-proximal stimulus internal mental representation - Answer-percept our perceptive system is fooled -real distal stimulus is different from our perception of it ex. optical illusion - Answer-Lack of Correspondence when distal & percept DO match but proximal stim. does not -e...

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Ace your PSYCH 240 Cognitive Psychology Exam 1 preparation with this focused study guide designed to support effective review and strengthen your understanding of foundational cognitive psychology concepts. This resource provides structured practice questions covering the history and development of cognitive psychology, structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, introspection, memory, mental processes, information processing, and major psychological perspectives. Ideal for Delaware State Univers...

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What is Cognitive Psychology? Ans: The scientific study of the human mind. The study of structures and processes of the mind and brain that take in, transform, and use information. Challenge of Cognitive psychology Ans: The mind is unobservable. You cannot observe a mind. You can observe the stimulus and the products. "The mind is like a black box" What cognitive psychologists can observe: Ans: Products, output of the mind: behavior, physiology. Three precur...

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PSYCH 240 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What is Cognitive Psychology? - CORRECT ANSWERThe scientific study of the human mind. The study of structures and processes of the mind and brain that take in, transform, and use information.

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Raven Progressive Matrices - Test that contains a matrix of geometric objects and one tries to figure out which geometric objects should bei n the blank spot Being able to store memory temporarily and retrieving it later Important part of IQ tests Mental Arithmetic - Doing mathematical problems without writing it out Have to remember the numbers from each part Store information temporarily, do other things, and retrieve it later Measure of Working Memory "reading span" - Read a series o...

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social psychology - Answer-examines the way people and social situations influence people social cognition - Answer-how do we think about and perceive others? -Stereotypes/prejudice/discrimination explaining behavior - Answer-how we make sense of others and our own behaviors -Situational vs dispositional attributions freud - Answer--theorist self-serving biases, unconscious motivation, defense mechanisms le bon - Answer--theorist the irrationality of groups skinner - Answer--theorist b...

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What is Cognitive Psychology? - Answer-The scientific study of the human mind. The study of structures and processes of the mind and brain that take in, transform, and use information. Challenge of Cognitive psychology - Answer-The mind is unobservable. You cannot observe a mind. You can observe the stimulus and the products. "The mind is like a black box" What cognitive psychologists can observe: - Answer-Products, output of the mind: behavior, physiology. Three precursors to cognitive p...

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Introspectionism - Looking inside, it's the first thing you try when you want to know what's going on in your own head (reliable observations about what's going on in your head to figure out how things work) - dominant approach in late 1800's Wilhelm Wundt & Edward Titchener - Categorized thoughts in terms of introspectionism (organ, # of sensations) Problems with Introspectionism - 1. Is it reliable? Inner head thoughts can't be replicated or validated because it was just his thought...

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Properties of Language (3) - (mostly) arbitrary - Kiki vs. bouba symbolic generative Language Levels - phonemes, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences Syntax - rules that determine word order Lexical ambiguity - word has two different meanings: "He was bothered by the cold" Syntactic ambiguity - words can be grouped together into more than one phrase structure "I saw the gorilla in my pajamas" McGurk Effect - Hear different things based on visual stimuli evidence for: the phoneme yo...

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