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Memory

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Learning that has persisted overtime; information that has been acquired, stored, and can be retrieved

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Dual-track

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Brain processes many things simultaneously by means of parallel processing

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Richard Atkinson and Richard shiffrin

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Proposed a model with 3 stages; informational processing model

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Working memory

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New form of short term memory using auditory and visual-spatial info though conscious

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Explicit memory

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The facts and experiences we can know and declare. We encode these memories through effortful processing

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Effortful processing

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Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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Automatic processing

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Happens without awareness, encoding of incidental information produces implicit memories

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Implicit memory

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Unintentionally memorized

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Iconic memory

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Memory through visual stimuli; sperling experiment; memory doesn’t last more than a few .1 of seconds

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Echoic memory

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Memory through auditory stimuli which can be recalled in about 3-4 seconds

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Chunking

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Organizing items into familiar, manageable units

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Mnemonics

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Uses vivid imagery to remember thing easier and to make a story with it

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Hierarchies

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Composed of a few broad concepts divided and subdivided into narrower concepts and facts

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Spacing effect

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Learning over time

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Testing effect

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Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than rereading information

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Shallow processing

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Encoding on a basic level (letters, numbers)

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Deep processing

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Encoding based on the meaning of the words

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Hippocampus

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Helps process explicit memories for storage

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Cerebellum

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Plays a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning

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Basal ganglia

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Deep brain structures involved in motor movement, facilitate formation of our procedural memories for skills

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Amygdala

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Emotion-related memory formation

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Flashbulb memory

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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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Priming

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The activation, often unconsciously, of associations in memory

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State-dependent

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Can recall better when in the same psychological state (sober, drunk, high)

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Mood-congruent

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Can recall depending on mood

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Serial position effect

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Tendency to recall last and first items on list

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Anterograde amnesia

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An inability to form new memories

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Retrograde amnesia

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An inability to retrieve information from past memories

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Encoding failure

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We cannot remember what we have not encoded

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Storage decay

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The course of forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off over time

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Ebbinghaus

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Forgetting curve: decreases over time

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Retrieval failure

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Sometimes even stored information cannot be accessed, when leads to forgetting

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Proactive interference

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Occurs when prior learning disrupts your recall of new information

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Retroactive interference

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Occurs when new learning disrupts recall of old information

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Repression

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Basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

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Misinformation effect

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Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event

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Source amnesia

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Attributing the the wrong source or with misinformation effect, it’s at the heart of many false mems

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Déjà vu

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Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience

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Cognition

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The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Concept

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

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Prototype

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A mental image or best example of a category

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Creativity

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The ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable

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Convergent thinking

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Focuses on finding one well-defined solution to a problem

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Divergent thinking

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Thinking abstractly and differently than the typical way

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Algorithms

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Step-by-step procedures that guarantee a solution

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Heuristic

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Simple thinking method that allows us to make judgements and solve efficiently; more error-prone compared to algorithms

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Insight

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A sudden realization of a problem’s solution; light bulb

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Confirmation bias

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A tendency to search for information that supports our perceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

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Intuition

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Our fast, automatic, unreasoned feelings and thoughts

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Mental set

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A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past

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Representativeness heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular 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 their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind we presume such events are common

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Overconfidence

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The tendency to be more confident than correct

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Belief perseverance

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Tendency to cling onto our beliefs in the face of contrary evidence

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Framing

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The way as issue is posed

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Language

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Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

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Phoneme

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The smallest distinctive unit
Bat> B-A-T

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Morpheme

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Smallest until that carries meaning; suffix, prefix

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Grammar

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System of rules that enables us to communicate with others

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Semantic

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Deriving meaning from sounds

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Syntax

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Order words into sentences

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Receptive language

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Their ability to understand what is said and about them

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Babbling stage

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The stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first infested to the household language

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One word stage

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Mostly single words; Kitty!

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Two word stage

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Mostly two-word sentences: get ball.

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Telegraphic speech

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Child speaks like a telegram; go car.

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Aphasia

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An impairment of language

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Broca’s area

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Controls language and expression; impairing speaking: speaking words is through this area and motor cortex

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Wernike’s area

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Controls language reception; impairing understanding; heading words is through auditory cortex here

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Linguistic determinism

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Whorf’s hypothesis that language determines the way we think

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Capacity sesory

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The capacity for sensory memory is infinite

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Duration sensory

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The duration for sensory memory is .5-3 seconds

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Short-term memory

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Super quick and holds info briefly

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Encoding

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Allows info to be converted into a construct that is stored in the brain indefinitely

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Episodic memory

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Memories from our life events and experiences. When and where and event took place

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Semantic

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Recalling words, concepts, numbers. Factual information

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Procedural

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Long term memory involved in the performance of different actions and skills

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Recall

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Designated the retrieval of related details from memory

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Recognition

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Ability to recognize an event or piece of info as being familiar

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Encoding specificity principal

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Recall is easier if it occurs in a context similar to the context in when you learn the info

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Context effects

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The influence of environmental factors on one’s perception of a stimulus

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Suppression

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Deliberately trying to forget or not think about painful/unwanted thoughts

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False memory

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Recalls an event that never happened, or an actual occurrence substantially different from the way it transpired

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Schema distortion

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When learning new info that does not fit with the existing schemas people sometimes distort or alter the new info to make it fit what they already know

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Imagination inflation

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An increased tendency to falsely remember that an item had been seen when it has only been imagined

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False familiarity

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Increased feelings of familiarity due to repeatedly imagining an event

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Blending fact and fiction

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Using vivid, authentic details to add to the legitimacy and believability of a pseudo-event

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Henry Gustav Molaison (HM)

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A man that had surgery for his seizures. After, he developed heavy anterograde amnesia

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Eric lenneberg

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Critical stage hypothesis- a critical stage during childhood where language is most absorbed and it closes quickly

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Noam Chomsky

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Language acquisition device- language learning was determined by innate genetic mechanisms
Universal grammar- all languages have nouns, verbs, and adjectives

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