Cognitive Psychology

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Exploring the Benefits and Limitations of Automatic Processing: Insights from Cognitive Psychology

automatic processing unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings Automatic processing is a type of...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Overcoming the Availability Heuristic: A Guide to Making Informed Decisions Based on Objective Data

Availability heuristic make a judgement based on the first thing that pops in your head (assumes planes are dangerous because of a crash in the news) The...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Breaking the Chains of Belief Bias: How to Overcome the Influence of Pre-Existing Beliefs in Evaluating Arguments

Belief Bias the tendency for one’s preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid Belief Bias is...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Understanding Bottom-Up Processing: From Sensory Information to Perception

Bottoms up processing Sensory receptors and works its way up of processing Bottom-up processing is a type of processing that starts with the basic sensory information and...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

The Importance of Bottom-up Processing for Perception and Understanding of the Environment

bottom-up processing analysis begins withe the sensory receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information Bottom-up processing refers to the mental processing that starts...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Understanding Explicit Memory: The Difference Between Semantic and Episodic Memory Examples Explored Through Carla’s Experience in Salt Lake City

Carla went on vacation to Salt Lake City. As she talks about her time there what explicit memory is she utilizing? episodic Carla is utilizing her explicit...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Measuring Attention and Response Accuracy: The Importance of Catch Trials in Psychological Research

Catch Trials trials in which the signal is presented Catch trials are a technique used in psychological research to measure attention and response accuracy. Catch trials are...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Unveiling the Science of Change Blindness: Understanding Causes and Implications for Transportation, Security, and Medicine

change blindness Failing to notice changes in the environment/scenes, even when you appear to be attending to the information Change blindness refers to the inability of people...