Cognitive Psychology

2. The study of speech sounds in a language and the rules governing pronunciation
4. The preoccupation with one subject or issue, and the inability to adopt a new perspective on a problem.
5. The capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding and similar forms of mental activity.
10. Overgeneralised beliefs about a group that are often prejudices and discriminatory attitudes.
12. The initial experience of perceiving and learning information.
15. The mental process that involved discovering, analysing and overcoming obstacles.
17. Intelligence Quotient - an intelligence test score that is divided by dividing mental age by chronological age and multiplying it by zero.
18. Any of the faculties such as sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch that humans and animals use to perceive stimuli within and outside the body.
19. The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns and relationships to create something new.
20. A bias that results from the tendency to process and analyse information in such a way that it supports ones' pre-existing ideas.
22. Information stored in the brain and retrievable over a long period of time.
23. The grouping together of several items by the mind so that they can be remembered as a single item.

1. A mental grouping of similar things that is used to remember or learn what things are.
3. A series of cognitive operations that are involved in the acquisition, storage manipulation, transformation and use of knowledge.
6. The small amount of information that can be held temporarily in the mind and used to perform cognitive tasks.
7. The product of mental activity
8. The sensory experience of the world.
9. A specialised cell of the nervous system. They transmit information throughout the body.
11. A conceptual framework that helps organise and interpret information.
13. The ability of any computer/machine to learn and perform tasks such as decision making, speech recognition or using language.
14. A structure of the brain that plays a major role in learning, emotion and memory.
16. Mental shortcuts that help people to solve problems and make judgements more quickly.
21. The part of the central nervous system that is the centre of thought and controls mental and physical actions.