Understanding eye movements when reading, fixations, regression and experiments about reading.
Electroculography - what is it? What happens when we read? What variables affect the reading of words?
Compare and contrast three paradigms of Cognitive Psychology
Compare and contrast the three paradigms of Cognitive Psychology. What is the best way to organize this type of assignment and what facts should be included?
Definitions of coping patterns.
Distinguish between the terms direct and palliative coping and adaptive and maladaptive coping.
Understanding the Neocortical override theory.
Identify the three tenets that underlie neocortical override theory and the four principle layers or levels of the brain identified in neocortical override theory.
Lazarus's mediational model of stress
Give a graphic representation of Lazarus's mediational model of stress.
The categories and subcategories involved in stress and challenge coping strategies.
What are the names given to the four basic categories of coping strategies and the eight associated coping subtypes?
The 8 basic characteristics of any language system.
Describe the basic requirements of any fully functioning language system.
Cognition and Cognitive Processes
When my text talks about cognition and cognitive processes, what processes are they referring to? Thanks.
What is a module? What is the relationship between the notion of the module and the notion of the functional or cognitive architecture?
Functional Analysis and example
What is functional analysis? Provide one brief example of a functional analysis performed by cognitive psychologists?
