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These questions need to be answered a short essay answer for each question with the citation right below the answer not on a refrence page. 200 words minmum on each question. No plagrisim.

1. What is cognitive psychology?

2. How did cognitive psychology emerge as a major force in psychology?

3. What is a cognitive model, and how have cognitive models been used to understand the mind?

4. Why are sensation and perception important topics to cognitive psychologists?

5. What are the major theories of attention and the experimental support for them?

6. What have cerebral imaging techniques told us about attention?

7. What are the main issues regarding object recognition?

8. What is Gestalt psychology, and how does the theory account for perception?

9. What are the main features of the following ideas regarding pattern recognition: template matching, geon theory, feature analysis, and prototype formation?

10. How much information can you hold in short-term memory?

11. What is "chunking" of information, and how does it increase our capacity for storing knowledge?

12. What type of memories are the easiest to remember? Why?

13. What is meant by level of recall, levels of processing, and self reference effect?

14. What is episodic and semantic memory?

15. Discuss evidence for the existence of two memory stores.

16. Discuss the link between mnemonics and college success.

17. Discuss the link between expertise and brain function.

18. What are the three factors that make a mnemonic, a mnemonic?

19. What important historical events lead to the contemporary studies of consciousness?

20. How can consciousness be studies scientifically?

21. Describe the stages of sleep.

22. Why has the study of words and language been a favorite topic of psychologists interested in knowledge and its representation?

23. What features identify the following: set-theoretical model, semantic feature-comparison model, network model, prepositional networks, neurocognitive model?

24. What have studies of amnesic patients told us about the structure of memory? 25. How were the early studies of mental imagery and the testing of mental attributes related?

26. What are the main features of (a) the dual-coding hypothesis, (b) the conceptual-propositional hypothesis, and (c) the functional-equivalency hypothesis?

27. How does a person's bias influence the type of mental map he or she might form?

28. How do psychologists differ from linguists in the study of language?

29. What are the basic features of transformational grammar?

30. What is the linguistic-relativity hypothesis? What support has been given for this hypothesis? And what evidence is against the hypothesis?

31. How do cognitive psychologists define "thinking," and how does thinking differ from concept formation? From logic?

32. What are the major components of a syllogism?

33. What are Venn diagrams? Take a basic argument and illustrate it in a Venn diagram.

34. List some famous people you consider to be creative. What are the features that define creativity in them?

35. How does functional fixity make creative solutions difficult?

36. What recent experiments in genetics portend a new way of looking at intelligence?