PSY002 - Cognition 1

What is Cognition?

• The sum of our mental abilities

• A set of experimental methods

• Failure to notice things we are not attending to

• All of these are correct

Mental abilities allow us to...

• engage with the outside world

• Create concepts & solve problems

• Make decisions, judgements

• All of these

Scientific study of the mind as an information processor...

• Cognitive Psychology

• Behavioural Psychology

• Psychodynamic Psychology

• Gestalt Psychology

Cognitive psychologists ...

• use cognitive models of the information processing that goes on inside people’s minds

• use objective, controlled and rigorous scientific laboratory investigation.

• are dissatisfied with limitations of behaviourism

• All of these are true of cognitive psychologists

Which of the following is NOT a basic cognitive process?

• Attention

• Thought

• Memory

• Problem solving

Focusing on something in the environment with conscious effort

• Attention

• Perception

• Memory

• Thoughts

Which of the following is considered a higher-order cognitive ability?

• problem solving

• reasoning

• social behaviour

• These are all higher-order cognitive abilities

What are the two main types of executive function?

• Organisation and regulation

• Regulation and impulse control

• Organisation and information gathering

• All of these are correct

Gathering information and structuring it for evaluation is part of which executive function?

• Organisation function

• Regulation function

• Behaviour function

• Impulse control function

impulse control is part of which executive function?

• Organisation function

• Regulation function

• Behaviour function

• Structuring function