Cognition

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Was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. (First person to describe the learning curve)

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Herman Ebbinghaus

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American philosopher, sometimes described as father of modern linguistics. Is also a major figure in analytic philosophy.

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Noam Chomsky

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Was a German psychologist who contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.

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Wolfgang Kohler

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Is an American cognitive psychologist expert on human memory. She conducted extensive research on the malleability of human memory.

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Was one of the founders of the cognitive psychology field. He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics cognitive science in general.

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George A. Miller

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Is a non-conscious form a human memory concerned with perceptual identification of words and objects.

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Priming

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________indicates that, when humans store memories, they not only store the event, but they also store a memory of the mood the were in at the time.

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Mood-Congruent Memory

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Effect persons tend to remember the first few and last few words and are more likely to forget those in the middle of the list

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Serial position effect

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Difficulty in learning new information because of already existing information.

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Proactive Inferences

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Is when a person has difficulty recalling old information because of newly learned information

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Retroactive inferences

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These effects happens when our recall pf episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information.

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Misinformation effect

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Is a term coined by Joy Paul as the opposite of divergent thinking.

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Convergent Thinking

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Is a thought process or method to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions

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Divergent Thinking

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Any information which we sense and subsequently attempt to process, store, and later retrieve must be brought in through one of the sense and then transformed into some form that our believes and mind understand.

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Encoding

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Is the process in which information in hour memory can be recalled.

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Retrieval

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Is the ability of the brain to do many things at once.

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Parallel Processing

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The part of the memory system in which is the initial contact for stimuli.

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Sensory memory

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Is the visual sensory memory register pertaining to the visual domain and a fast-decaying store of visual information.

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Iconic memory

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Is the phenomenon whereby animals more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few time s spaced over a long time span.

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Spacing effect

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Is a psychological phenomenon that refers to an enhancement in the long term retention information as a result of taking a memory test.

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Testing effect

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The cognitive processing of a stimulus for its meaningful properties over its perceptual properties.

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Deep processing

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The sudden onset of a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.

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Flashbulb Memory

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Is a mental shortcut that allows people to solve problems and make judgements quickly and efficiently.

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Heuristic

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A tendency to approach situations the same way that worked in the past.

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Mental Set

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At age of 2 children enter the two word stage of language development.

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Telegraphic Speech

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Is a concept taken form the narrow field of analytic philosophy and postulates that human language and determines human thought patterns and knowledge.

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Linguistic Determinism