Jan 04 Cognition

Cards (15)

  • Cognition is the function of understanding the processes that produce complex behaviors, including memory, language, and perception.
  • Cognitive function is regulated by brain activity, which emerges from the connections of over 100 billion nerve cells in the brain.
  • Cognitive research includes basic research, which aims to understand the world and its phenomena without regard to a specific end-use of this knowledge, and applied research, which aims to develop a solution to a problem.
  • Hypothesis-guided research involves developing a theory and then testing it against evidence.
  • Phenomenon-based research involves discovering an "effect" and then following up with research to understand the nature of the effect.
  • The placebo effect is a phenomenon where fake treatments lead to improvements in people’s symptoms and functioning.
  • Cognitive psychology is the study of behavior to understand the mind (mental processing).
  • Neuroscience is the study of the brain and linking it to the mind, exploring which parts of the brain carry out functions we see behaviorally.
  • Computational modeling involves building and modeling the mind-brain connection.
  • The emotional enhancement effect states that emotional stimuli are more easily attended to and remembered than neutral stimuli.
  • Behavioral experiments show focal memory enhancements for negative stimuli in an image (Loftus et al., 1987).
  • Cognitive neuroscience of emotion involves studying the role of the amygdala in predicting memory for emotional but not neutral images (Dolcos et al., 2004).
  • The advent of AI, represented by ChatGPT, is a significant development in cognitive research.
  • "I want to know the reason that I think the way I do" represents functionalism
  • Rationalism is to innate as empiricism is to acquired