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Cognition and Memory Flashcards

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Encodeing

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Taking information in and processing it

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Maintenance rehearsal

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Repeat the info over and over to try to remember

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Chunking

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Grouping information together that needs to be remembered so we can remember it

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Elaborative rehearsal

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Add meaning or detail to help remember the info better

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Mnemonic devices

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Strange or unusual associations to help us remember info better

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Method of Loci

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Remembering info by visualizing it in various familiar places

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Serial position effect

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Tend to remember the first and last pieces of info the best

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Proactive interference

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Old info blocks new info from being remembered

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Retroactive interference

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New info blocks old info from being remembered

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Sensory memory

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A very short piece of sensory info

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Iconic

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Visual sensory memory

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Eidetic

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Photographic memory

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Echoic

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Auditory

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Short term memory

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Brief store house for info

15-20 seconds

5-7 items

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Working memory

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Another name for short term memory

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Long term memory

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Relatively permanent store house for all types of memory

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Long term potentiation

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Neural connections that get stronger with each time we process and use a piece of info in our memory

*repetition

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Explicit/Declarative Memory

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Meteorites you must use effort to recall

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Nondeclarative/implicite memory

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Memories that do not take effort to recall

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Procedural memories

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“How to” memories

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Semantic memory

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Facts/words/language

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Episodic memory

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Memories of your life

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Flashbulb memory

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Vivid powerful memories tied to an emotion or stress

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Hippocampus

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Stores your short term memory

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Cerebellum

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Balance and long term memory

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Recall

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Remembering info without any cue

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Recognition

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Given options from which to choose the right answer

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Priming

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Giving you background info/gets you back into the right mindset to recall info

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Deja vu

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Feel like something has happened before

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Mood congruent memory

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We tend to remember things at times when we felt a similar mood

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State dependent learning/the encoding specificity principle

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More likely to remember info if we are in the same mental “state”

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Anterograde amnesia

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Can no longer from any new memories

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Retrograde amnesia

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Cannot remember anything from your past

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Repression

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The controversial idea that we can block out unwanted memories

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Source amnesia

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You remember info, but inaccurately remember where you learned it

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Misinformation affect

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When conflicting info is given after an event, it affects our memory of the event itself

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Confabulation

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The act of creating a false memory

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Forgetting curve

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After learning info if it isn’t practiced we rapidly forget

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Spacing effect

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Practice info a bit over time to aid in remembering that info

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Automatic processing

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Encoding like muscle memory

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Effortful processing

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Takes time and effort to encode the info

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Visual encoding

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The process of encoding images and visual sensory info

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Acoustic encoding

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The use of auditory stimuli or hearing to implant memories

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Semantic encoding

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The processing and encoding of sensory input that has particular meaning or can be applied to a context

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Relearning

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A way of measuring retention by measuring how much faster one relearns material that has been previously learned and forgotten

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Ebbinghaus

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Pioneered the experimental study of memory and cognition

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Miller

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The idea of short term memory and 5-7 items stored

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Loftus

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Misinformation effect and confabulation

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Atkinson and shiffrin

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The idea of memory storage

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Kohler

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Insight learning

When one suddenly realizes how to solve a problem

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Concept

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Overall categories that ideas/objects/ events fit into

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Prototype

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The main example of each concept for an individual

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Algorithm

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A problem solving strategy where you try every possible solution and you eventually get the answer but it’s slow

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Heuristic

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A problem solving strategy that uses a rule of thumb or a shortcut to find the answer, it is faster but can easily lead to mistakes

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Insight

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The aha moment of understanding

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Creativity

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The phenomenon where so,etching new and valuable is formed, it does not need to be a tangible object but it still holds value

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Availability heuristic

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A problem solving strategy when we make a decision based on information that most readily comes to mind

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Representativeness heuristic

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A problem solving strategy based on a stereotype or generalization

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Overconfidence

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A cognitive bias where you think you were right all along

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Confirmation bias

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A cognitive bias where you tend to think so,thing is true even though it isn’t

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Fixation/mental set

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We can only think of one way to solve a problem

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Functional fixedness

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We can only think of a normal use for an object

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Belief perseverance

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Clinging to ones initial belief even though contradicting evidence has been discovered

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Framing

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A cognitive bias where you react to a certain situation the way it is presented to you

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