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Chapter 7 Reading Quiz! Flashcards

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Memory

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Continual learning over time through storage and retrieval

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encoding

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Processing information into memory system- extracting meaning.

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Storage

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retaining stored encoded information

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retrieval

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getting information out of memory storage

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Three stages of forming memories:

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sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

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Unconscious processing:

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external event- sensory input, sensory memory- encoding, working/short term memory- encoding- retrieving, long term memory

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working memory

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understanding of short term memory- focuses on conscious processing- and retrieved long term memory information

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Working memory focuses:

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conscious active processing of incoming auditory and visual spatial information and retrieved info from long-term memory

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Parallel processing

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Doing many things at once to understand a problem.

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Retention

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to remember

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Automatic process

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unconscious encoding of incidental information

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Effortful Processing

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Encoding requiring attention and conscious effort

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Rehearsal

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Conscious repetition of information

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Spacing effect

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Rehearsal distributed over time

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Acoustic encoding

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Encoding of sound

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Testing effect

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Testing is a powerful means of improving learning not just testing it

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Point to remember 2:

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Spaced study and self-assessment beat cramming

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Serial position effect

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tendency to recall last and first items in a list best

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Visual encoding

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Encoding of pictures

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Semantic encoding

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Encoding of meaning; especially meaning of words

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Chunking

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Organizing familiar items into manageable units; often automatic

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Echoic memory

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Sound/word recalled seconds after sensory stimuli

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Ltp

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Long-term potentiation

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Long-term potentiation

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Increase in synapses firing potential after brief rapid stimulation

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self-reference effect:

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Relating things to ourselves more easily

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imagery

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mental pictures

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mnemonics

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memory aids

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Rosy retrospection

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Negative emotions recalled from bad events fade more rapidly than positive emotion recalled from good events.

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Iconic memory

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Memory of visual stimuli; lasts several seconds

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Flashbulb memory

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clear memory of an emotionally significant event

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Amnesia

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Loss of memory

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Implicit memory or

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Non-declarative/ procedural memory

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Implicit memory

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retention independent of conscious recollection

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Explicit memory

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memory of experiences/facts and individual can consciously declare

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Explicit memory or

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declarative memory

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Hippocampus located in

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limbic system

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Hippocampus

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helps process explicit memories for storage

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cerebellum stores

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implicit memories created by classical conditioning

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recall

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Measure of memory in which the person must retireive information learned earlier

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relearning

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Measures of memory assessing the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time

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priming

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activation unconsciously of an individuals associations

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recognition

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memory by identifying what was already learned

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proactive interference

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when something learned prior disrupts recall of new information

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retroactive interference

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Disruptive effect of new information on recall of old information

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mood-congruent memory

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recalling experiences consistent with good or bad moods

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Repression casues

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conscious anxiety aroused thought, feelings and memories to banish

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misinformation effect

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incorporating misleading info into a memory

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source amnesia

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Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about or imagined.

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algorithm

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step-by-step procedures guaranteeing a solution

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heuristic

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Thinking strategy often error producing

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insight

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solution to a problem

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creativity

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ability to produce novel ideas

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confirmation bias

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searching for info that suppotrs our ideas

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fixation

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inability to see problem from a different perspective

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mental set

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approach problem, in a particular way

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functional fixedness

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tendency to think of things in terms of usual functions

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representative heuristic

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judge likelihood of things in terms or particular prototypes

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availability heuristic

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estimating likelihood of events based on their availability in memory

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overconfidence

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overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs/judgements

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belief perseverance

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clinging to initial conceptions after basis they were formed on were discredited

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langauage

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how we communicate meaning

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phoneme

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smallest distinctive sound unit in language

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morpheme

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smallest unit with meaning

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morpheme expample

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a words prefix

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grammar

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system of rules enabling communication

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semanatics

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study of meaning

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syntax

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rules for combining swords in to grammatically correct sentences

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babbling stage

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various unrelated sounds produced by infants

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one-word stage

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single words spoken by 1 to 2 year olds

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two word stage

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speech development involing two-words statements

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telegraphic speech

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children’s speech of mostly nouns and verbs

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linguistic determinism

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language determines how we think

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Hypothesis of Linguistic determinism presented by

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Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Sensory memory

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Brief recording of sensory information into memory system

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Short- Term memory

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Briefly holds few items before information is forgotten

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Short-term memory example

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7 digits of a phone number while dialing

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Long- term memory

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Relatively limitless storehouse of memory system.

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Long-term memory includes

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Knowledge, skills and experiences

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Automatic processing examples:

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Space, time, Frequency and well-known word meanings

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Rehearsals purpose:

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Maintain information consciously/ encode information for storage

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Spacing effect allows for:

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more long-term retention

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Acoustic encoding often includes:

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the sound of words

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De ja vu

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Cues from current situations may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience

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