Human Cognitive Psychology Exam 1- Chapter 1

The study of the mental operations that support people's acquisition and use of knowledge

The psychological approach that attempts to identify what occurs during the various stages (attention, perception, short term memory) of processing information

The part of memory that holds un-analyzed sensory information for a fraction of a second, providing an opportunity for additional analysis following the physical termination of a stimulus

The stage of perception during which a stimulus is identified

The part of attention in which some perceptual information is blocked (filtered) out and not recognized, while other information receives attention and is subsequently recognized

The stage that follows pattern recognition and determines which information a person will try to remember

Memory that has limited capacity and that lasts only approximately 20 to 30 seconds in the absence of attending to its content

Memory that has no capacity limits and lasts from minutes to an entire lifetime

The flow of information from the sensory store toward LTM

The flow of information from LTM toward the sensory store

The approach that emphasizes the association between a stimulus and a response, without identifying the mental operations that produced the response

The study of how to produce computer programs that can perform intellectually demanding tasks

A temporally ordered sequence of operations for carrying out some task

The interdisciplinary attempt to study cognition through such fields as psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology

The study of the relation between cognitive processes and brain activities