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Cognitive Psychology Glossary Rest

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

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verbal comprehension

the receptive ability to comprehend written and spoken linguistic input, such as words, sen-tences, and paragraphs
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Term
Definition
verbal comprehension
the receptive ability to comprehend written and spoken linguistic input, such as words, sen-tences, and paragraphs
verbal fluency
the expressive ability to produce linguistic output
verb phrase
syntactic structure that contains at least one verb and whatever the verb acts on, if anything
viewer-centered representation
an individual stores the way the object looks to him or her
vigilance
refers to a person’s ability to attend to a field of stimulation over a prolonged period, during which the person seeks to detect the appearance of a ...
visuospatial sketchpad
briefly holds some visual images
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Cognitive Psychology Glossary Rest
TermDefinition
verbal comprehension
the receptive ability to comprehend written and spoken linguistic input, such as words, sen-tences, and paragraphs
verbal fluency
the expressive ability to produce linguistic output
verb phrase
syntactic structure that contains at least one verb and whatever the verb acts on, if anything
viewer-centered representation
an individual stores the way the object looks to him or her
vigilance
refers to a person’s ability to attend to a field of stimulation over a prolonged period, during which the person seeks to detect the appearance of a particular tar-get stimulus of interest
visuospatial sketchpad
briefly holds some visual images
well-structured problems
problems that have well-defined paths to solution
word-superiority effect
letters are read more easily when they are embedded in words than when they are presented either in isolation or with letters that do not form words
working memory
holds only the most recently activated por-tion of long-term memory, and it moves these activated elements into and out of brief, temporary memory storage