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Cognitive Psychology Glossary A
This deck covers key terms and concepts in cognitive psychology, focusing on definitions and explanations of various phenomena and models.
accessibility
the degree to which we gain access to the available information
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Term
Definition
accessibility
the degree to which we gain access to the available information
ACT
Adaptive Control of Thought. In the ACT model, John Anderson synthesized features of serial information-processing models and of semantic-network mode...
ACT-R
a model of information processing that integrates a network representation for declarative knowledge and a production-system representation for proced...
agnosia
a severe deficit in the ability to perceive sensory information
Alzheimer’s disease
disease causing dementia and progressive memory loss
amacrine cells
along with horizontal cells, they make single lateral connections between adjacent areas in the middle layer of the retina
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
accessibility | the degree to which we gain access to the available information |
ACT | Adaptive Control of Thought. In the ACT model, John Anderson synthesized features of serial information-processing models and of semantic-network models:; procedural knowledge -> represented as production system; declarative knowledge -> propositional networks |
ACT-R | a model of information processing that integrates a network representation for declarative knowledge and a production-system representation for procedual knowledge |
agnosia | a severe deficit in the ability to perceive sensory information |
Alzheimer’s disease | disease causing dementia and progressive memory loss |
amacrine cells | along with horizontal cells, they make single lateral connections between adjacent areas in the middle layer of the retina |
amnesia | severe loss of explicit memory |
amygdala | important role in emotion: aggression and anger |
analogues codes | a form of knowledge representation that preserves perceptual features of what is being represented |
analysis | breaking down a problem into managable elements |
anterograde amnesia | the inability to remember events that occur after a traumatic event |
aphasia | impairment of language functioning caused by brain damage |
arousal | degree of physiological excitation, responsivity and readiness for action, relative to a baseline |
artifact categories | groupings that are designed by humans |
AI | the attempt by humans to construct systems that show intelligence |
associationism | examines how ideas or events can become associated with one another in the mind to result in a form of learning |
attention | the active cognitive processing of a limited amount of information from a vast amount of information available through our senses |
autobiographical memory | refers to memory of an individual’s history |
automatic processes | involve no conscious control |
automatization | the process by which a procedure changes from being highly conscious to being relatively automatic; also proceduralization |
availability | the presence of information stored in long-term memory |
availability heuristic | cognitive shortcut that occurs when we make judgements on the basis of how easily we can access what we think are relevant instances of a phenomenon |