AUPSY 263 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Dog, Working Memory

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology: the scientific study of how people remember, pay attention, and think. The scientific study of the acquisition, retention, and use of knowledge. Cognitives psychology started as the study of knowledge. Perception, attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, reasoning and language are all involved in cognition. Cognition: the mental process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. Amnesia: cases in which someone loses the ability to remember certain things due to brain damage. Social consequences - cannot interact with people. Can"t form a healthy relationship if you don"t remember the person. Medical consequences - forgetting to take medications. Also if you have homecare social consequences would make you not recognize a homecare person. You don"t retain traumatic information, such as the loss of someone. You lose a sense of self concept. You cannot use memories to remember what to do or how to act. H. m. experienced this amnesia caused by extreme epilepsy.