Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition Goldstein Test Bank Chapters 1 - 13 Updated

Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition Goldstein Test Bank Chapters 1 - 13 Updated Frontal Lobe - ANS-Controls movement, aspects of memory, and inhibits inappropriate behaviors. Homunculus - ANS-Neurological map representing the areas of the human body. Long Term Potentiation - ANS-Intense stimulation leaving synapses potentiated for minutes, days, or weeks, enhancing memory. Habituation - ANS-Becoming accustomed to a stimulus, paying less attention to it over time. Selective Attention - ANS-Ability to respond selectively to certain sources of information while ignoring others. Feature Integration Theory - ANS-Proposes that attention is required to bind features together to create a unified perception. Central Executive - ANS-Processor allocating resources, governing attentional processes, and adjusting goal priorities. Working Memory - ANS-Retaining and using past experiences in the present, involving encoding, storage, and retrieval. Cognition - ANS-Mental activity involving acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge. Cognitive Psychology - ANS-Study of human intelligence and mental processes, part of Cognitive Science. Wundt - ANS-Advocated studying mental processes and understanding the structure of the mind. Ebbinghaus - ANS-Defined memory as the faculty of the mind to bring back past experiences into consciousness. Method of Savings - ANS-Measured retention of information using time difference in learning nonsenses syllables. Forgetting Curve - ANS-Shows improvement in time saved based on the amount of remembered nonsense words over 31 days. Functionalism - ANS-Emphasized the functions of the mind and behavior in adapting to the environment. Behaviorism - ANS-Belief that behaviors are learned through interactions with the environment. Gestalt - ANS-Theory observing human mind and behavior as a whole, emphasizing overall quality over individual elements. Bartlett - ANS-Defined memory as reconstruction based on target information and background knowledge. Cognitive Science - ANS-Interdisciplinary study including psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience. Information Processing Approach - ANS-Analogous to computer processing, understanding mental processes through a series of stages. Parallel Distributed Processing - ANS-Understanding cognitive processes as networks linking neuron-like units, with many operations occurring simultaneously. Atkinson-Shiffrin Model of Memory - ANS-Describes memory as a multistore model with sensory, short-term, and long-term memory.