Cognitive Vs Cognitive Psychology Essay

Introduction

Cognition is a mental process of human trying to understand the knowledge acquired through thoughts, understanding and sense, whereas Psychology is a scientific study of researchers trying to understand the human behavior and the function of the mind, especially if there is something that is deviating from the norms of the society.

When we put these two words together, it will make a 'chunk' a term that is use in Cognitive Psychology to describe a method where it helps one to remember things better. Apart from that, Cognitive Psychology is a study where psychologists and researchers try to understand how human perceive information, learn, solve problems and remember as to the psychologist who are conducting these researches, mind

For example, we go to the beach and steps on soft surface nearby the sea our perception will tell us that it’s the sand based on our past experience. This happens through our bottom up and top down process. Basically, bottom up is our sensory through our five senses that works on parallel with top down process which is our experience. (galotii, ) Referring back to the example given, we can see that, when the leg touches the sand it is sending sensory information to the brain which later being process based on past experience that it is

Short term memory is something that we rehearse overtime so we wouldn’t forget the details, so we keep it active and available for a short period of time (Medin, et, al, 2001). It is popular known as working memory nowadays, working memory is a immediate and brief memory of information that one currently processing (Matlin, 2009). Long term memory is a process that is responsible in storing information in our ‘archive’ that we keep for a long period of time (Goldstein, 2011). Our long term is divided into two categories which is explicit which holds to events and facts and also implicit which is procedural and other (Galotti, )

For long term memory it is consists of three parts, which is storage, coding and retrieve. Encoding refers to the technique use through our physical sensory that converts into a sense of information which later involves storage on how you keep the information in stored and gain access later in order to retrieve the information stored in memory ( Sternbergs, 2012).

Methods

Methods used in the experiments are, stroop effect for our attention, 13 pictures for visual search to test on perception, remember a list of word for short term memory and two sets of nonsensical words for long term memory. This is to prove whether the theories mentioned above is true or