AP Psych U5: Cognitive Psych

• concepts


  mental grouping of similar things
• prototypes


  our minds best example of a concept
• heuristics


  mental shortcuts for making judgements
• availability heuristics


  most readily available mental answer seems correct
• representative heuristics


  quickly assesses if current situation fits a concept by comparing situation to conceptual prototype
• cognition


  out thoughts, thinking processes, memories, mental learning
• what are some problem-solving strategies in cognitive psychology?

  heuristics

  representative heuristics

  availability heuristics
• cognitive psychology


  study of mental processes
• cognitive neuroscience 


  study of the biological processes that enable mental processes
• what does cognitive neuroscience state about the relationship between psychology and biology?

  everything psychological is also biological
• meta cognition


  using mental processes to analyze mental processes
• memory


  learning that persists or information that has been stores + can usually be recalled
• encoding


  processing information into storage memory
• storage


  keeping that information accessible
• retrieval


  accessing the info from storage