Study Guides for PSYC 3260 at York University (YORKU)

Focus on: describe and differentiate mind-body dualism from mind body monism, describe and differentiate structuralism and functionalism, describe and

Lecture focuses on judgment and decision making. Seminal work by kahneman & tversky (k&t); see kahneman (2011) thinking fast & slow for more detail. Le

Cog (mental activity)--acquisition, storage transformation, and use of knowledge. Cognitive psych (1) cog psyc sometimes used as synonym for cognition

Cog (mental activity)--acquisition, storage transformation, and use of knowledge. Cognitive psych (1) cog psyc sometimes used as synonym for cognition

Psycholinguistics interdisciplinary field: examines how ppl use language to communicate ideas focus: processes that allow us to produce/ comprehend lan

Chapter introduction: goal of research--specify how each of these processes are organized & coordinated by the mind. Cognition (cog activities) occupie

Chapter 2: the brain an overview of structure and function. Maximum brain weight is 1350 grams at age 20. Hindbrain contains medulla oblongata, pons, a

Attention: the ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations in our environment. Selective attention: attending to one thing while ignoring other s

***number of items stored in stm depends on both chunking strategies and word meaning. Students of memory william james there is a memory system that k

Attention concentration of mental activity--allows cognitive processes to take in limited portion of vast stream of info available from both sensory wo