Psy/360 Week1 Worksheet

Respond to the following questions in 100 to 150 words each.

1.  What does the field of cognitive psychology study?

2.  What is the process of attention? What is the purpose of attention in cognition? 

3.  What concepts are involved in the process of perception? How does perception affect cognition?

4.  Why is object recognition important? What processes take place to help us recognize objects and      faces? What is the relationship between object recognition and perception?