Classic Studies in Cognitive Studies: Short-Term Memory, Attention, Behaviour, and Perception

PC4054 2 – Essay
Cognitive studies
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Short term memory.....................................................................................................................3
Attention......................................................................................................................................4
Behaviour....................................................................................................................................5
Perception....................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References .......................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Cognitive science is basically related to interdisciplinary and scientific study on the mind
and its process. It analysis the nature, task and function of cognition and make focus on how the
nervous system of the body represent, process and transform the information. There are
numerous practical example and application for the concern of cognitive research, such as
memory disorder, finding ways, making decisions, helping people who are recovering from brain
injury (Horvat and Tement, 2020). This essay include the evaluation of different type of classic
studies in cognitive studies with four examples of short-term memory, Attention, Behaviour and
Perception. All of the above example are related to internal and external factors and make
supplement learning.
Main Body
Short term memory
Short term memory is basically related to the concept of limited number of item which
are capable of doing in mind at one time. It is related to long standing concept of short term
memory in the term of cognitive science. This is related to different reasoning, planing and
problem solving. The study of short term memory is basically revolutionized by the British
psychology Alan D. Baddaley in the 1970's era. This is related to two main storage buffers first
one is visuospatial information and another one is verbal information (Short-term memory,
2021). This is related to the logic of double dissociation. They have the separate task
performance by different variable, which are related to various example; memory task,
remembering set of location and many more activities are come under the circumstances of the
memory power. While taken together it is suggested that different findings and implied on verbal
and spatial short term memory are rarely rely on the pool of cognitive resources (Golmohammadi
and et.al., 2020). Different psychologists are used different and double dissociation and make
verbal and spatial short term memory which are gone as per the patient and their callosotomy
procedure.
In the original working memory theory of Baddeley and Graham Hitch are work on the
central executive procedure. Some of the researcher proposed that there are various component
that may be related to proposed coordinate and control on various sub parts of the system. This
could be related to different system and make various sub parts. This is one of the
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