Cognition Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
1
Q

Encode

A

Breaking info down

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Store/Retain

A

Rehearsal and practice

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Retrival

A

Recall

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Episodic Memory

A

Life experiences Ex vacation

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Semantic

A

Facts Ex school

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Flashbulb

A

Traumatic memory Ex 9/11

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Hippocampus

A

Short term memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Frontal lobe

A

Long term memory

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Implicit memories (automatic processing)

A

Process without conscious awareness

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Procedural

A

Motor skills, controlled by cerebellum Ex riding a bike

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Classically condition associations

A

Cerebellum

Ex nervous before test

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Habitual

A

Habits
Ex picking
Basil ganglia

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Iconic

A

Visual and last 1 sec

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Echoic

A

Hearing last 4 sec

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Short term memories holds…

A

5-9 bits of info

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Phonological

A

Auditory repetition

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Audiovisuals

A

Mental image

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Long term memory space is…

A

unlimited

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Chunking

A

Breaking something into smaller pieces

20
Q

Mnemonic device

A

visual aid Ex ROYGBIV

21
Q

Spacing effect

A

Studying for a bit over time

22
Q

Testing effect

A

Quizzing yourself

23
Q

Shallow processing

A

Encoding or learning something on a basic level Ex words

24
Q

Structural

A

Encoding the physical qualities of something (appearance)

25
Q

Phonemic

A

encoding the sound of a word

26
Q

Semantic encoding

A

Encode the meaning of the word and relate it to similar words

27
Q

Thalamus is involved in…

A

encoding info

28
Q

Infantile amnesia

A

Cant remember the first 3 years of life

29
Q

Long term potentiation

A

The neural connections at snapes are strengthens

30
Q

Recall

A

Retrieval of previously learned into

31
Q

Recognition

A

Identification of learned items when they are presented

32
Q

Relearning

A

Learning something more quickly the 2nd time

33
Q

Priming

A

Using previous knowledge/experience to retrieve a memory

34
Q

Contact dependent memory

A

Where you learn something is the best remembered in the same physical environment

35
Q

State dependence memory

A

Things we learn in one mental/physical state are more easily recalled in that same state

36
Q

Mood congruent memory

A

You remember something better when you are in the same mood in which you encode that info

37
Q

Serial position effect

A

Our tendency to recall the first and last items in a list

38
Q

Anterograde amnesia

A

Cant make new memories after an damage to the hippocampus

39
Q

Encoding failure

A

Inability to create memory link not paying attention

40
Q

Retrieval failure

A

Cant access a memory

41
Q

Retrograde amnesia

A

Cant recall old memories

42
Q

Storage decay

A

Fading memories

43
Q

Proactive interference

A

Old block new

44
Q

Retroactive interference

A

New block old

45
Q

Source amnesia

A

inability to remember where when or how previously learned info has been acquired while retaining the factual knowledge