Cognitive approach: theories and concepts

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Across
  1. 5. seek out information to confirm what you already believe
  2. 7. rational, requiring intentional effort and time
  3. 9. component where information can be stored indefinitely
  4. 10. the magic number in STM(Miller)
  5. 11. form of cognitive bias, tendency to remember certain items in a list better due to their placement(Ebbinghaus)
  6. 12. facilitates communication between the central executive and long term memory
  7. 13. processor of auditory and language information
  8. 15. act of forgetting is due to a lack of cognitive availability
  9. 16. economising, the general human tendency in order to exert less effort
Down
  1. 1. when a participant is misled or lied to about the true aims, nature and expected outcomes of the study
  2. 2. detect all perceptive information
  3. 3. memory based on fabricated/distorted memory due to reconstructive memory
  4. 4. schema processing based on a fixed mental representation of a group of individuals
  5. 6. mental shortcuts that can lead to cognitive bias
  6. 8. region of the brain that influences memory encoding
  7. 14. allocates resources between subsystems based in modality, essentially the ‘manager’