Cognitive Psychology

4. The study of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, and thinking, and the act of using those processes.
7. Type of code that is an abstract, language-like representation that isn’t visual or spatial.
8. A certain sound is going to sound different based on the context.
9. Using a solution similar to earlier problem to solve a new problem.
15. Concentration of mental activity that allows you to take in a limited portion of the info in your sensory world and memory.
16. Repeating the information you want to learn.
17. Mental representations of a category.
21. Process of interpreting/understanding sensory info, object/pattern recognition.
23. Reception of stimulation from environment, initial encoding of stimulation in nervous system.
24. Better recall for items at the end of the list. (2 words)
25. Inability to recall past events (deficits in episodic memory).
26. Psychology focused on objective, observable reactions to stimulus in the environment.
27. Generalized, well-integrated knowledge about a situation, an event, or a person.
28. Cognitive bias where people are are stuck in the way a item is traditionally used. (2 words)
30. Knowledge and control of one's cognitive processes.

1. Smallest units of meaning.
2. Face Blindness; disorder of face perception where a person cannot recognize human faces visually.
3. Mental representation of stimuli when those stimuli are not physically present. (2 words)
5. People have trouble learning new material because previously learned material keeps interfering with new learning. (2 words)
6. Psychological construct, related to frequency and relative position in music scale.
10. Systematically analyze own sensations and report them objectively.
11. Each hemisphere of the brain has somewhat different mental processes/functions.
12. Type of code that is a representation that closely resembles the physical object.
13. People take a long time to name the color of the word, when the word is different from the color. (2 words)
14. Process information and represent it in your memory.
18. Condition in which people are unable to visualize mental images.
19. Immediate memory of the limited amount of material that you are currently processing. (2 words)
20. When a pattern is incomplete, there is a tendency to perceive it as a whole and complete by closing the gap.
22. Locate information in storage, and you access that information.
29. Study of sensations, images, and feelings that were elements of the mind.