Cognitive psychology, Branch of psychology devoted to the study of human cognition, particularly as it affects learning and behaviour. The field grew out of advances in Gestalt, developmental, and comparative psychology and in computer science, particula
In this article, I focus on the roles of empirical versus logical truth in psychology. I believe that, for every psychological proposition, one must ask whether it is empirical or not, that is, whether its truth value must be determined by gathering data, or by conceptual/logical analysis. ...
Memory is the encoding, storage, and retrieval in the human mind of past experiences. The basic pattern of remembering involves attention to an event followed by representation of that event in the brain. Repeated attention, or practice, enables activiti
30 A belief that extraordinary memory can be gained through enough practice 31 A depiction of the rare ability which assists the extraordinary memory reactions Questions 32-36 Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage. Using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the Reading Passag...
The questions required the participants to process the words at one of the three levels. The visual processing questions included such things as asking the participants about the font of the letters. The acoustic processing questions asked the participants about the sound or rhyming of the words, ...
Reactivation of earlier perceptual activity is thought to underlie long-term memory recall. Despite evidence for this view, it is unclear whether mnemonic activity exhibits the same tuning properties as feedforward perceptual activity. Here, we leverage
What is memory consolidation in psychology? Memory consolidation is how the brain transforms short-term memories into long-term memories. Encoding, storage, and retrieval are part of the process of memory consolidation. How is memory consolidated?
The questions were presented in Chinese and the translations were: (1) location question: Press a corresponding number to indicate the location of target letter; (2) identity surprise question: This is a surprise memory test! Which one of following four letters is the one that you had just ...
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such as the hippocampus, amygdala and prefrontal cortex (PFC).5,11 Somewhat slower, a second system is activated in response to stress, the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis, resulting in the 1Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. ...