Cognitive Psychology (SAGE Course Companions series)
Carol Brown
Language: English
Pages: 232
ISBN: 1412918391
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Cognitive Psychology provides student readers with essential help with all aspects of their first course in cognitive psychology, including advice on revising for exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and skills in line with course requirements in cognitive psychology.
(Cognitive)-3490-Part II(1-9).qxd 11/21/2006 6:25 PM Page 38 38 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Common Pitfalls • Each area of object recognition is quite separate, for example, patterns versus objects versus faces, and sometimes students forget to make any distinction between these, which is important. • As highlighted above, it is necessary to focus specifically on what the essay question asks, so a general discussion is quite different to being asked to outline and evaluate research. It is tempting
activate recognised words. If they do not match the presented information or relate to the context or meaning of the word, then they are eliminated and the recognition point simply occurs when this matching processing is complete and all other possibilities have indeed been eliminated. As with many models focused on language, there is difficulty in generalising the information and results obtained from computer simulations to speech within the real-life context, and as such the theory lacks
Checklist: Mastering terms used in your lectures Read lectur e notes befor e the lectur es and list any unfamiliar ter ms. Read over the listed ter ms until you ar e familiar with their sound. Try to work out meanings of ter ms fr om their context. Do not suspend lear ning the meaning of a ter m indefinitely . Write out a sentence that includes the new wor d (do this for each wor d). Meet with other students and test each other with the technical ter ms. Jot down new wor ds you hear in lectur
am writing is nonsense. Can’t r emember impor tant details. Characteristic test-ir relevant thoughts (non-evaluative): • Looking for ward to this weekend. • Which video should I watch tonight? Brown (Cognitive)-3490-Part III.qxd 11/21/2006 12:00 PM Page 167 EXAM TIPS • His r emark r eally annoyed me yester day! • I wonder how the game will go on Satur day? • I wonder if he/she r eally likes me? Research has consistently shown that distracting, intrusive thoughts during an exam are more
process Brown (Cognitive)-3490-Part II(1-9).qxd 11/21/2006 6:25 PM Page 26 26 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY whereby environmental stimuli are picked up and tuned into as an automatic process. Information thus takes the form of optic flow patterns (giving information on speed and direction of movement), texture gradients (closer objects seen in more detail than further ones) and affordances (detail about the function of objects). Gregory’s indirect, constructivist, top-down theory of processing