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Domain-specific knowledge

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Knowledge useful in a particular situation

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General knowledge

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Useful in many different kinds of tasks

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Information processing

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The mind’s activity of taking in, storing, and using information

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Sensory memory

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Sensory information. This memory is very brief

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Bottom-up processing

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Noticing separate features and assembling them into a pattern

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Top-down processing

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Using context and what we already know about the situation

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Automaticity

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Performing a task that is so thoroughly learned it does not require much mental effort

Example: driving, walking

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Working memory

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The task you are currently working on.

Contains both temporary storage and active processing

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Short-term memory

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Memory system that holds information for 20 seconds.

Can hold 5 to 9 things at once.

Once rehearsed these things move to long-term memory.

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Visuospatial sketchpad

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Part of working memory.

Holds visual and spatial information.

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Central executive

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The part of working memory that is responsible for monitoring and directing attention and other mental resources

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Phonological loop

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A speech and sound related system for holding and rehearsing words and sounds

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Cognitive load

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How much mental processing it takes to complete a task

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Intrinsic cognitive load

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The resources required by the task alone

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Extrinsic cognitive load

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The recourses it takes to process outside stimuli

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Germane cognitive load

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Deep processing of information related to a task as well as the application of prior knowledge to a newly risen problem within the task

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Maintenance rehearsal

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Keeping information in working memory by repeating it

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Elaborative rehearsal

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Keeping information in working memory by connecting it to prior knowledge

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Chunking

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Grouping a large collection of data into more meaningful units

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Interference

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Processing new information gets confused with old information

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Decay

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The weakening and fading of memories with the passage of time

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Cognitive view of learning

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The active mental process of acquiring, remembering and using knowledge

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Long term memory

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Permanent store of knowledge

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Declarative knowledge

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Facts

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Procedural knowledge

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Demonstrated when performing a task

Know how to do something

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Self-regularity knowledge

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Knowing how to manage learning and when to use knowledge

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Explicit memory

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Long-term memories that involve deliberate or conscious recall

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Implicit memory

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Knowledge that we are not conscious of recalling

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Semantic memory

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Meaning of a word

Example: Plane, dog, cat

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Dual coding theory

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Things are stored in long term memory as images or verbal units or both

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Schemas

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Structures for organizing information

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Episodic memory

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Information tied to a time and place

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Flashbulb memories

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Vivid memories of emotionally important events

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Procedural memory

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Memory for how to do things

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Priming

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Activating a concept in memory

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Elaboration

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Connecting to prior knowledge

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Organization

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Ordered and logical network of relations

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Context

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The physical and emotional backdrop associated with an event

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Spreading activation

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Remembering one bit of information activates recall of associated information

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Mnemonics

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Technique for remembering

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Loci method

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Associating items with specific places

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Acronym

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Using the first letter of each word to remember a concept or steps

Example: PEMDAS

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Chain mnemonics

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Associates one element of a series with the next

Example:
I before e except after c

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Keyword method

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Associating new words with similar sounding words

Example:
The 4 c’s

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Serial-position effect

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The tendency to remember only the end and beginning of a series

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Domain-specific strategies

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Applied skills to reach goals in a particular subject

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Algorithm problem solving

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Step by step procedure

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Heuristic problem solving

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For general more challenging life problems

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Means-ends analysis

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Goal is divided into sub-goals

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Working backward strstegy

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Start with the goal then move backwards

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Verbalization

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Putting your problem solving plan into words

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Representativeness heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of an event based on how well they match your prototype

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Availability heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of an event based on what is available in your memory

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Confirmation bias

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Seeking information that confirms your choices or beliefs

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Divergent thinking

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Coming up with many possible solutions

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Convergent thinking

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Narrowing possibilities to a single answer

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Restricting

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Conceiving of a problem in a new way

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Insight

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Sudden realization of a solution

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Transfer

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Using previously learned information on new material

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