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Cognitive psychology

This class was created by Brainscape user Harriet Wylde. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

By: Harriet Wylde
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Decks in this class (16)

Perception 1- sensation & perception
Sensation 1,
Perception 2,
Distal stimuli 3
14  cards
Perception 2- brightness & colour
Stimulus for vision overview 1,
What type of properties are brigh...,
Ways that light interacts with ob...
23  cards
Perception 3 - depth & visual scene analysis
Difficulties making perceiving ma...,
How do we perceive depth 2,
Perceiving depth monocular cues 3
21  cards
Perception 4 - loudness and pitch
Perceptual definition of sound 1,
Physical definition of sound 2,
Amplitude 3
20  cards
Perception 5- localisation & auditory scene analysis
Localising sound binaural cues 1,
Localising sound monaural cues 2,
Interaural time differences itds 3
18  cards
Attention
Focussed selective attention 1,
Divided attention 2,
Cocktail party problem 3
21  cards
Language and reading- word recognition
Mental lexicon 1,
Eye tracking 2,
Lexical decision task 3
22  cards
Language and reading- sentence processing
Syntax 1,
Tree diagrams for sentences 2,
Syntactic ambiguity 3
23  cards
Language and reading-discourse processing
Logical inferences 1,
Bridging inferences 2,
Elaborative influences 3
24  cards
Memory 1
Free recall tests 1,
Cued recall tests 2,
Recognition tests 3
23  cards
Memory 2
Primacy 1,
Recency 2,
Serial position curve 3
20  cards
Memory 3
Ebbinghaus 1885 memory studies 1,
Ebbinghaus forgetting function 2,
Duration of long term memories 3
10  cards
Cognition & emotion 1
Cognition emotion as separate top...,
Affect 2,
Emotion 3
18  cards
Thinking 1- problem solving
Three crucial elements to a probl...,
Behaviourist 2,
Gestaly 3
16  cards
Cognition & emotion 2
Does affect require cognition the...,
Mere exposure experiment zajonc 2,
Primacy debate 3
24  cards
Thinking 2- decision-making
What causes a bias in human reaso...,
The representativeness heuristic ...,
The representativeness heuristic ...
9  cards

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