Cognitive Psychology - created from Mind Map

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Problem solving

Categorisation

Memory

Mental Imagery

mental representations

Process

Types of problem

identify

Representing

Selecting strategy

Implementing

Evaluating

Comprehension

Transformation

Arrangement

Concept and category

Concepts and Categories

Concepts

Categories

general idea that derived from specific instances

class of similar things

Theoretical approaches

Feature

Examplar

Prototype

Catogeries by specific characteristics

based on an average of typical or prototype

Concepts

Categories

theoretical approaches

general idea that is derived from specific instances

class of similar things

Exemplar

Prototype

Feature

every instance of category stored in memory

based on an average of the typical and prototype

categories by specific characteristics

sensory memory

short term memory

long term memory

encoding

hold information before process

capacity: large/unlimited

retain infomation 30 second

recieve input from sensory memory and long-term memory

store large amount memory and permanently

placing infomation into long-term memory

rehearsal

elaborated rehearsal

repeat

mnemonic

process of relating information

memory strategy

visual representation

identify object,parts and characteristics

track moving object

identify propoties of imaged object

Propositional netword

Scripts

using theory of spreading activation

sequences of stored knowledge

provide the underlying mental frameworks for procedural knowledge