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Cognitive Psychology Glossary B

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This deck covers key terms and concepts in cognitive psychology, focusing on definitions and explanations of various phenomena and theories.

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Term
Definition
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Refers to the prevalence of an event within its population of events
Babbling
The infant’s preferential production largely of those distinct phonemes that are characteristic of the infant’s own language
Basic level
(Apple) degree of specificity of a concept that seems to be a level within the hierarchy that is preferred to other levels, sometimes termed natural l...
Behaviorism
Psychology should focus only on the relation between observable behavior, on the one hand, and environmental events or stimuli, on the other
Binaural presentation
Presenting the same two messages, or sometimes just one message, to both ears simultaneously
Binocular depth cues
Depth cues based on information from both eyes
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Cognitive Psychology Glossary B
TermDefinition
Base rate
Refers to the prevalence of an event within its population of events
Babbling
The infant’s preferential production largely of those distinct phonemes that are characteristic of the infant’s own language
Basic level
(Apple) degree of specificity of a concept that seems to be a level within the hierarchy that is preferred to other levels, sometimes termed natural level
Behaviorism
Psychology should focus only on the relation between observable behavior, on the one hand, and environmental events or stimuli, on the other
Binaural presentation
Presenting the same two messages, or sometimes just one message, to both ears simultaneously
Binocular depth cues
Depth cues based on information from both eyes
Bipolar cells
Connect ganglion cells and the third layer of retinal cells
blindsight
traces of visual perceptual ability in blind areas
bottom-up theories are
data-driven
bounded rationality
belief that we are rational, but with limits