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The study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking".Much of the work derived from cognitive psychology has been integrated into various other modern disciplines of psychological study including educational psychology, social psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, and economics.

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Changing how a problem is represented. Eg: find x from known r in circle. Gestalt psychologists also introduced the idea that restructuring is associated with insight.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Judging the probability that something belongs to a category based on how well it represents or matches that category. • Based on similarity and prototypicality • Judgment fails to consider base ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A process by which people start with information and draw conclusions that go beyond that information.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

The psychological study of language • Comprehension: How do we understand spoken and written language? • Production: How do we produce speech and writing? • Representation: How is language ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

A way of thinking about cause and effect in the world that is learned as part of experiencing everyday life.

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

• A phoneme in a spoken word in a sentence can be perceived even if it’s obscured by noise. • The “filling in” of the missing phoneme based on the context is an example of top-down ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

Shortest segment of speech that, if changed, can change the meaning of a word • About 47 different phonemes in English • Languages have different phonemes • Example: “bit” has three phonemes, ...

Domain: Psychology; Category: General psychology

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