Cognition Flashcards

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1
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Type of encoding that requires no effort

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Automatic encoding

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2
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type of encoding that requires attention

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Effortful encoding

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3
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Attaching images to information makes it easier to remember

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Imagery

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4
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We remember better the things we are interested in

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Self-referent encoding

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5
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Combining different types of encoding aids in memory

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Dual encoding

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6
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break info into smaller units to aid in memory

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Chunking

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7
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Shortcuts to help us remember info easier

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Mnemonics

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8
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The location where something is learned is the best location for memory recall

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Context dependent memory

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9
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the physical state one experiences when learning is the same state they should experience while testing; drunk learning = drunk testing

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State dependent memory

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10
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Stores all incoming stimuli that you receive

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Sensory Memory

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11
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visual memory; lasts .3 seconds

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Iconic Memory

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12
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Auditory memory, lasts 2-3 seconds

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Echoic Memory

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13
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info passes from sensory memory to _____________ which lasts 30 seconds and can remember 7 items + or - 2

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Short Term Memory

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14
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lasts a life time

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Long Term Memory

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15
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Conscious recollection:
Episodic
Semantic

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Explicit Long Term Memory

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16
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Unconscious recollection:
Classical conditioning
Priming
Procedural

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Implicit Long Term Memory

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17
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Hierarchies
Semantic Networks
Schema

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Memory Organization

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18
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Responsible for memory storage in the hippocampus for most memories

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Acetylcholine

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19
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Tendency to remember the beginning and end of a list best

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Serial Position Effect

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20
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remembering what you have been told without cues

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Recall

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21
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Remember what you’ve been told with cues

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Recognition

22
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Particularly vivid memories for highly important events

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Flashbulb Memories

23
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Unconsciously buried memories

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Repressed memories

24
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forgetting info because you never encoded it in the first place

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Encoding failure

25
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The more closely retrieval cues match the way we learned info, the better we remember the info

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Encoding Specificity Principle

26
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Recall decreases rapidly at first, then reaches a plateau after which little more is forgotten

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Forgetting curve (EBBINGHAUS)

27
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Old info blocks new info

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Proactive interference

28
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New info blocks old info

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Retroactive interference

29
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Distortion of memory by suggestion or misinformation

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Misinformation effect (Loftus)

30
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Amnesia that moves forward (forgetting new info)

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Anterograde amnesia

31
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Amnesia that moves backward (forget old info)

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Retrograde Amnesia

32
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Caused by destruction of acetylcholine in hippocampus

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Alzheimer’s Disease

33
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Smallest units of sound

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Phonemes

34
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Smallest unit of sound that carries meaning

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Morpheme

35
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Infants babble 1st stage of speech

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Babbling Stage

36
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Kids repeat what they hear but they dont do it perfectly

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Imitation

37
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Grammar mistakes where children over use certain morphemes

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Overregularization

38
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Uses reward and punishment to change behavior

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Operant Conditioning

39
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NOAM CHOMSKY; language is innate and we are predisposed to learn it

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Inborn Universal Grammar

40
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Period of time where something must be learned or else it cannot ever happen

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Critical period

41
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Language influences the way we think (WHORF) Hopi people don’t have words for past tense and can’t easily think about it

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Linguistic determinism

42
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Short cut strategy

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Heuristics

43
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Make inferences based on your experience

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Representative Heuristic

44
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Relying on availability to judge the frequency of something

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Availability heuristic

45
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Only using one strategy; can’t think outside the box

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Functional Fixedness

46
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Tendency of one’s preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning by making invalid conclusions

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Belief bias

47
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tendency to cling to our beliefs in the face of contrary evidence

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Belief perseverance

48
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Data driven decisions, general > specific

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Inductive Reasoning

49
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Driven by logic

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Deductive reasoning

50
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Ability to think about many different things at once

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Divergent thinking