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**Advanced Cognitive Psychology** is the study of complex mental processes and how people perceive, learn, remember, and think. It extends beyond basic cognitive psychology by diving deeper into specialized areas such as problem-solving, decision-making, language processing, and higher-order thinking. Here’s a brief overview of core areas covered in advanced cognitive psychology: 1. **Attention**: Exploring how we focus on certain stimuli while ignoring others. It includes understanding selective attention, divided attention, and attentional capacity limits. 2. **Memory**: Going beyond short-term and long-term memory, advanced cognitive psychology looks at memory systems, autobiographical memory, and how memories are constructed, stored, and retrieved. 3. **Problem Solving and Decision-Making**: Studying how people approach solving complex problems, form judgments, make decisions, and deal with uncertainty. 4. **Language Processing**: Investigating how humans understand, produce, and learn language, including aspects like syntax, semantics, and the psychological processes underlying communication. 5. **Cognitive Neuroscience**: Examining the neural substrates of mental processes by linking brain activity to cognitive functioning through methods like fMRI, EEG, and other brain imaging techniques. 6. **Perception**: Understanding how we interpret sensory information to perceive the world, including how cognitive processes influence our visual, auditory, and other perceptual experiences. 7. **Executive Functioning**: Analyzing higher-level cognitive functions, such as planning, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control, which are essential for goal-directed behavior. Advanced cognitive psychology often combines insights from neuropsychology, artificial intelligence, and computational models to better understand human cognition. These theories and research help in fields like education, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and clinical interventions for cognitive disorders.

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University’s Teachers College. Dr. Weseley has served as a Reader and Table Leader for
the AP Psychology exam, published a number of psychology-related activities, led several
psychology teacher workshops, and served on the Board of Teachers of Psychology in the
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Rob McEntarffer taught AP Psychology at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, NE for
13 years and Introductory Psychology at Nebraska Wesleyan University for 7 years. He
earned a B.S. in teaching of psychology at the University of Nebraska, a master’s degree in
educational psychology, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in education. He has extensive
experience in scoring the Advanced Placement Psychology free-response questions, having
served as a Reader, Table Leader, and, as the high school Question Leader. He is past chair
of the national organization Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools, worked with the
committee on the National Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology, and is
involved in writing assessment materials for high school and college level introductory
psychology textbooks. He works as an assessment specialist for his school district.
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