PSYC 213 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Chronometry, Principles Of Grouping, Auditory Scene Analysis

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

Document Summary

Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and senses. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge. To learn the ways that we perform mental activities and to learn how certain conditions affect specific mental functions (aging, mood illness, brain injury). Clive wearing his memory was affected after brain injury. He had one of the worst cases of amnesia, not even remembering the question to the answer he is given. Lessons we got from his case: cognitive activities can dissociate, cognition is a collection of different abilities/processes. Clive(cid:495)s episodic memory is impaired, but other functions are spared. Cognition doesn(cid:495)t occur in isolation in a lecture, for e. g. we perceive the sounds and view the slides, we pay attention to what the person is saying, we use our memory, and we decide to stay awake.