[PSYCO258] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 99 pages long Study Guide!
7 Feb 2017
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Distinguishing items in a category: thinking of different forms of transportation; bus, car, roommates car. Visualizing: the book on his desk from the night before. The branch of psychology concerned with the scienti c study of the mind. Cognition refers to the mental processes, such as perception, attention, and memory, that are what the mind does. Cognition is not only complex, but also invisible. A lot of times, we are not even aware of inner workings of the mind. The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking and reasoning. Re ects the minds central role in determining various mental abilities. Indicates different kinds of cognition- perception, attention and memory and what the mind does. All include hidden processes of which we may not be aware: the mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals.
