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AP Psychology Exam Terms PART 2 Flashcards

All the vocab needed for the 2024 AP Psychology Exam on May 9.

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Stroboscopic movement

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Motion produced by a rapid succession of slightly varying images.

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Interposition

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Overlapping images appear closer.

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Relative Size

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2 objects that are usually similar in size, the smaller one is further away.

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Relative Clarity

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Hazy objects appear further away.

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Texture Gradient

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Coarser (rough) objects are closer.

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Relative Height

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Things higher in our field of vision look further away.

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Linear Perspective

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Parallel lines are converged (tend to meet) with distance (think railroad tracks). THINK OF THE ROAD DRAWINGS YOU MADE AS A KID WHERE THE ROAD GETS SMALLER WHEN THE LINES GET CLOSER TOGETHER AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE.

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Retinal Disparity

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Image is cast slightly different on each retinal location of image helps us determine depth.

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Convergence

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Eyes strain more (looking inward) as objects draw nearer. CROSS-EYED.

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Outer Ear

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Ear, Auditory canal.

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Middle Ear

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Ear drum, HAS bones that vibrate to send signal.

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Inner Ear

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Cochlea (sounds 1st processed here).

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Theories of Hearing occur where?

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In the COCHLEA.

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Place theory

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Location where hair cells bends determines sound (high pitches).

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Frequency theory

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Rate at which action potentials are sent determines sound (low pitches).

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Pain -> Gate-Control theory

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We have to “gate” to control how much pain is experienced.

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Kinesthetic

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Sense of body position.

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Vestibular

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A sense of balance (semicircular canals in the inner ear affect this).

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Taste (gustation)

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5 taste receptors:
1. Bitter
2 Salty
3. Sweet
4. Sour
5. Umami (savory)

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Smell (olfaction)

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Only sense that does NOT route through the Thalamus 1st. Goes to temporal Lobe and Amygdala.

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Figure/ground

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Organize information into figures object (figures) that stand apart from surrounds (back ground).

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Closure

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Tendency to mentally fill in gaps.

TO CLOSE.

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Proximity

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Tendency to group things together that appear near each other.

APPROXIMATELY THIS CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.

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Similarity

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Tendency to group things together based on looks.

“They look similar because of their clothes.”

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Continuity

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Tendency to mentally form a continuous line.

CONTINUING THE LINE.

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Beta Waves

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Awake.

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Alpha Waves

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High amp drowsy.

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Stage 1

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Usually lasts between 1 and 5 minutes and occupies approximately 2-5% of a normal night of sleep.
Consists mostly of theta waves (high amplitude, low frequency).
LIGHT SLEEP.

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Stage 2

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Occupies approximately 45%-60% of sleep.
BURSTS OF SLEEP SPINDLES.

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Stage 3

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Delta Waves: Deep sleep
- lasts 15-30 minutes
- called “slow wave” sleep because brain activity slows down dramatically from the “theta” rhythm of stage 2 to a much slower rhythm called “Delta.”
- Delta sleep is the deepest stage of sleep and occupies up to 40% of all children.

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Stage 4

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Extremely deep sleep
- similar to stage 3
- Delta and slow wave are most used terms to describe this deep, slow sleep
- a sleep deprived person’s brain craves Delta sleep

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Rapid Eye Movement (REM) - Stage 5

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ACTIVE STAGE OF SLEEP
- composes 20-255 of a normal night’s sleep
- Breathing, heart rate and the brain wave activity quicken
- Vivid dreams can occur
- lasts longer throughout the night
FROM REM SLEEP YOU GO BACK TO STAGE 2.

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Freud’s Unconscious Wish Fulfillment

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Dreaming is gratification of unconscious desires and needs.

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Activation Synthesis

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The brain produces random bursts of energy - stimulating lodged memories. Dreams start randomly, then develop meaning.

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Psychoactive Drugs

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Triggers dopamine release in the brain.

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Depressants

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Alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, opiates (narcotics), Decrease sympathetic NS activation, highly addictive.

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Stimulants

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Amphetamines, Cocaine, MDMA (ecstasy), Caffeine, Nicotine, Increase sympathetic NS activation, highly addictive.

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Hallucinogens

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LSD, Marijuana - Causes hallucinations, not very addictive.

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Tolerance

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Needing more of a drug to achieve the same effects.

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Dependence

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Become addicted to the drug - must have it to avoid withdrawal symptoms.

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Withdrawal

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Psychological and physiological symptoms associated with sudden stoppage.

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Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

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Brings about response without needing to be learned (food).

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

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Response that naturally occurs without training (salivate).

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Neutral Response (NS)

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Stimulus that normally doesn’t evoke a response (bell).

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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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Once neutral stimulus that now brings about a response (bell).

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Conditioned Response (CR)

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Response that, after conditioning, follows a CS (salivate).

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Contiguity

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Timing of the pairing, NS/CS must be presented immediately BEFORE the US.

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Acquisition

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Process of learning the response pairing.

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Extinction

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Previously conditioned response dies out over time.

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Spontaneous Recovery

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After a period of time, the CR comes back out of nowhere.

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Generalization

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CR to like stimuli (similar sounding bell).

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Discrimination

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CR to ONLY the CS.

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Operant Conditioning

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SKINNER!!!!

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Classical Conditioning

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IVAN PAVLOV!!!!

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Law of Effect (Thorndike)

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Behaviors followed by positive outcomes are strengthened, negative outcomes weaken a behavior.

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Positive Reinforcement

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Adding something nice to increase a behavior (gold star for turning in HW).

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Negative Reinforcement

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Taking something bad/annoying away to increase a behavior (put on the seatbelt to take away annoying car signal).

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Positive Punishment

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Add something bad to decrease a behavior (spanking).

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Negative Punishment

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Take away something good to decrease a behavior (take away car keys).

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Primary Reinforcers

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Innately satisfying (food and water).

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Secondary Reinforcers

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Everything else (stickers, high-fives).

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Token Reinforcer

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Type of secondary reinforcer - can be exchanged for other stuff (game tokens or money).

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Generalization

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Respond to similar stimulus for reward.

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Discrimination

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Stimulus signals when behavior will or will not be reinforced (light on means response are accepted).

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Extinction/Spontaneous Recovery

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Same as Classical conditioning.

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Overjustification Effect

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Reinforcing behaviors that are intrinsically motivating causes you to stop doing them (give a child $5 for reading when they already like to read - they stop reading).

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Shaping

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Use successive approximations to train behavior (reward desired behaviors to teach a response - rat basketball).

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Fixed Ratio Schedule

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Reward every _ number of responses (every 10 envelopes stuffed get $$).

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Fixed Interval Schedule

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Reward every _ amount of time passed (every 2 weeks get a paycheck).

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Variable Ratio Schedule

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Rewarded after a random number of responses (slot machine)

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Variable Interval Schedule

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Rewarded after a random amount of time has passed (fishing).

72
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Variable Schedules are most resistant to what?

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EXTINCTION!

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Method of Loci

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Using locations to remember a list of items in order.

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Context of dependent memory

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Where you learn the info you best remember the info.

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Storage

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Retaining info over time.

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Information Processing Model

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Sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory model.

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Sensory Memory

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Stores all incoming stimuli that you received (first you have to pay attention). INVOLVES THE FIVE SENSES.

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Iconic Memory

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Visual memory, last 0.3 seconds.

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Echoic Memory

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Auditory memory, lasts 2-3 seconds.

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Short Term Memory

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Info passes from sensory memory to short term memory - lasts 30 seconds and can remember about 7 items.

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Long Term Memory

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Memory that can be stored for a sustained period of time.

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Rehearsal

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Repeating the information.

Resets the clock… recently rehearsed items move up the clock for how long it will be remembered.

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Semantic Memory

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Long term memory from meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts.

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Implicit Memory

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(Nondeclarative) - unconscious recollection of memory.

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Priming

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Info that is seen earlier “primes” you to remember something later on.

84
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Procedural

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Skills + Memory Organization

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Hierarchies

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Memory is stored according to a hierarchy.

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Schemas

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Preexisting mental concept of how something should look (like a restaurant). MEMORY STORAGE.

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Cerebellum

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For procedural memories.

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Long-term potentiation

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Neutral basis of memory - connections are strengthened over time with repeated stimulation (more firing of neurons).

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Retrieval

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Taking info out of storage.

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Serial Position Effect

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Tendency to remember the beginning and the end of the list best.

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Recall

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Remember what you’ve been told without cues.

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Recognition

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Remember what you’ve been told without cues (MC).

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Flashbulb memories

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Particularly vivid memories for highly important events (9/11 attacks).

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Repressed memories

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unconsciously buried memories - are unreliable.

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Encoding failure

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Forget info because you never encoded it (paid attention to it) in the first place.

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Forgetting curve

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Recall decreases rapidly at first, then reaches a plateau after which little more is forgotten (EBBINGHAUS).

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Proactive interference

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Old information blocks new information.

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Retroactive interference

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New info blocks old information.

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Misinformation effect

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Distortion of memory by suggestion or misinformation (Loftus - lost in the mall, Disneyland).

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Information moves forward (forget new info - 50 first dates).

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Amnesia moves backwards (forget old info).

102
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Alzheimer’s Disease

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Caused by destruction of acetylcholine in hippocampus.

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Parkinson’s Disease

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Loss of dopamine.

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Multiple Sclerosis

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Myelin Sheath degenerates.

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Phonemes

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Smallest unit of sound (ch sound in chat).

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Morpheme

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Smallest unit that carries meaning (syllable).

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Grammar

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Rules in a language that enable us to communicate.

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Semantics

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Set of rules by which we derive meaning (adding -ed makes something past tense).

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Syntax

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Rules for combining words into sentences.

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Babbling Stage

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Infants babble 1st stage of speech.

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Operant Conditioning

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Reinforced for language use.

112
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Inborn Universal Grammar

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Theory comes from NOAM CHOMSKY
- says that language is innate and we are predisposed to learn it.

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Critical Period

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Period of time where something must be learned or else it cannot ever happen (language must be learned young - Genie the Wild Child).

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Linguistic Determinism

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Language influences the way we think.
Developed by WHORF.

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Concepts

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Mental categories used to group objects, events, characteristics.

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Prototypes

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All instances of a concept are compared to an ideal example (what you first think of).

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Algorithims

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Step by step strategies that guarantee a solution (formula).

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