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Chapter 8&9: Memory, Thinking & Language Flashcards

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Memory

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Indication that learning has persisted overtime

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Sensory Memory

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immediate brief recording

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Short-term Memory

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brief holding bin, encode by encoding for rehearsal

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Long-term Memory

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relatively permanent, limitless storage

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Working Memory

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active processing within incoming memory

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Encoding

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Getting information in

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Automatic Processing

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unconscious encoding of incidental information

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Effortful Processing

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encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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Spacing Effect

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better yield from distributed studying rather than missed study

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Serial Position Effect

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recall best the last & first list items

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Listening Curves

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gradual upward slope representing increased retention of material as a result of learning

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Visual

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encoding of picture images

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Acoustic

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encoding of sound

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Semantic

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encoding of meaning

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Sensory Memory System

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before STM, make decision to move to STM or forget

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Iconic Memory

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momentary sensory memory of a visual

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Echoic Memory

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momentary sensory memory of an auditory stimuli

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Flashbulb Memory

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Emotional attachments assist memory

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Short-Term

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retain for seconds or minutes

7-9 items at a time

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Working Memory

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allows manipulation of info in STM

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Long-Term

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retain for hours, days, weeks, months, or decades

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Consolidation

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process of memory solidifying over time, eventually becoming permanent*

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Implicit LTM

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how to do something

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Explicit LTM

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factual, knowledge, experienced events

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State-dependent LTM

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learning & reproduction of the material is reliant on the condition of body when learning

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Context Dependent LTM

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Remember in setting when relevant to know it

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Retrieval

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Getting information out

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Recall

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bring back and integrate specific learned details

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Recognition

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ability to pick out correct object or event from a list

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Relearning

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measure of memory that assesses the time saved when learning for second time

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Priming

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the activation, often unconscious of particular associations in memory

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Deja Vu

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sense of having experienced something before

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Mood-Congruent

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tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with mood

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Forgetting

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increase in error experienced while trying to remember

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Forgetting Curve

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graphic of rate/amount of forgetting

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Transfer of Training

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process when learning is carried over from one task to another based on similarities

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Positive Transfer

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transfer to similar situation

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Negative Transfer

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interference with learning that results from differences between two otherwise similar tasks

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Interference Theory

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we forgot because there is a conflict between new and old material

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Proactive Interference

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old disrupts the new

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Retroactive Interference

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new disrupts the old

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Motivated Forgetting

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repression

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Misinformation Effect

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incorporating misleading information in one’s memory of an event

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Source Amnesia

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attribute information to wrong source

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Anterograde Amnesia

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loss of memory for any event after a Brain Injury

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Retrograde Amnesia

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loss of memory for events prior to a Brain Injury

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Elaboration Process

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effective method for storing learned material using max number of associations

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Mnemonic Devices

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unusual associations made to aid memory

-Not to be used excessively

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Principle Learning

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focus on basic idea

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Chunking

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organizing similar information

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Cognition

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mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communications

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Concept

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mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people

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Prototypes

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a mental image or best example

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Algorithm

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methodical or logical rule that guarantees a solution

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Heuristic

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thinking strategy that helps us make judgments and solve problems efficiently, speedy yet error prone

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Insight

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sudden burst of realization

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Confirmation Bias

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tendency to search for information that supports preconceptions and to ignore/distort contradictory evidence

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Fixation

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inability to see a problem from a new perspective

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Mental Set

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tendency to approach in particular way that has been succesful

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Functional Fixedness

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tendency to only view things in terms on visual use

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Trial and Error

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determine reasoning

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Deductive reasoning

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general to more specific information

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Inductive reasoning

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specific information to more broader generalization

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Representative Heuristic

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judging likelihood in terms of matching prototypes

-may lead us to ignore other relevant information

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Availability Heuristic

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estimating the likelihood of events based on memory

-easy memory = presume events is common

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Overconfidence

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tendency to be more confident than correct, overestimate accuracy

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Belief Preseverance

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cling to initial conceptions after basis has been discredited

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Language

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spoken, written, or body movement combined to communicate meaning

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Phonemes

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smallest distinctive sound unit

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Morpheme

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smallest unit with meaning

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Grammar

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system of rules for use

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Semantics

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set of rules to derive meaning

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Syntax

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rules for combining words into sensible sentences

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B.F. Skinner

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language comes from association, imitation, and reinforcement

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Chomsky

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Language comes from nurture by example, universal grammar

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