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Cognitive Psychology (13%-17%) Flashcards

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Prototype

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Mental image or the best example of a specific concept

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Convergent thinking

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Focuses on coming up with the single well-established answer to a problem

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Divergent thinking

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Exploring many possible solutions

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Trial and error

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Trying a number of different solutions in ruling out those that do not work

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Algorithms

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Set of step by step procedures that provide the correct answer to a particular problem

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Heuristic

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Educated guess based on prior experiences, mental shortcut

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Representative heuristic

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Comparing present situation to most representative mental prototype

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Availability heuristic

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Decisions on examples and information that immediately spring to mind

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Mental set

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People use solutions that have worked in the past

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Functional fixedness

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View problems only in their usual manner

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Overconfidence

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Tendency to overestimate our own knowledge, skill or judgment

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Hindsight bias

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I knew it all along, view events as more predictable than they really are

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Framing

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The acquired response to a formally neutral stimulus

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Alfred Binet

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French psychologist invented the first practical IQ test

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G factor

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General intelligence factor that underlies all intelligent activity

Charles Spearman

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Fluid intelligence

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Ability to reason think flexible, diminishes with adult aging

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Crystallized intelligence

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Accumulation of knowledge, fax/skills, increases with age

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Howard Gardner

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Theory of multiple intelligences, eight distinct types

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Wechsler intelligence scales

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Intelligence was made up of a number of different mental abilities rather than a single general intelligence factor

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Flynn affect

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IQ scores have been rising worldwide

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Achievement test

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Measures a persons level of skill/knowledge in a specific area

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Aptitude test

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Assesses what a person is capable of doing or to predict

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Reliability

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Tendency of a test to produce the same scores again and again each time is given to the same people

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Test retest reliability

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Best for intelligence, administering a test twice at two different points in time

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Split half reliability

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Comparing results of 1/2 of a test with results from the other half

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Validity

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The degree in which a test actually measures what it supposed to measure

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Content validity

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Test measures all aspects of what it is designed to measure

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Predictive

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Test accurately forecast performance on a future measure

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Normal distribution

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Bell shaped curb in which the majority of scores line near or around the average score

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One standard deviation

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68%

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Two Standard deviations

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95%

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Three standard deviations

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99.7%

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Recall

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Being able to access the information without being cued, fill in the blank without a word bank

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Recognition

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Identifying information after experiencing it again, multiple choice test

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Relearning

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The process by which we learned something for the second time. This learning process often occurs faster than the first time

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Encoding

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The process of putting information into the memory system

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Storage

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The creation of a permanent record of the encoded information

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Retrieval

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Calling back of stored information on demand when it is needed

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Iconic memory

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Visual

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Echoic memory

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Auditory

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Haptic memory

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Touch

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Maintenance rehearsal

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Straight repeating of information in order to memorize it

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Chunking

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Process of taking individual pieces of information and grouping them into larger units

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Working memory

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System in your brain that allows you to temporarily retain and manipulate the stored information involved in complex processes

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Miller’s magic number

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Number of items a person can remember and repeat back using attention and short-term memory

7 plus/minus 2

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Implicit memory

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Information that you remember unconsciously and effortlessly

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Procedural memories

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How to perform a specific task

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Explicit memory

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Information you have to consciously work to remember

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Semantic memory

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Memories of facts, concepts, names and other general knowledge

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Episodic memory

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Long-term memory that involves the recollection of specific events, situations and experiences

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Prospective memory

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Remembering to complete a task in the future

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Long-term potentiation

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Strengthening of a synaptic connection that happens when synapse of one neuron repeatedly fires and excites another neuron

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Forgetting curve

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Exponential loss of information shortly after learning it

Ebbinghaus

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Retrograde amnesia

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Cannot remember things that happened before their event that caused their amuseia

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Anteriorgrade amnesia

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Condition in which a person is unable to create new memories after an amnesia inducing incident

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Serial position effect

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When we try to retrieve a long list of words we usually recall the last words (recency effect) and the first words best (primary effects) forgetting the words in the middle

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Encoding failure

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Occurs when a memory was never formed in the first place

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Proactive interference

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Older memories interfere with the retrieval of newer memories

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Retroactive interference

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Newer memories interfere with the retrieval of older memories

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Flashbulb memory

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Vivid and detailed memories that people create during times of personal tragedy, accident, or emotionally significant world events

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Extensive research on memory construction and how false memories and how memory is changeable, it is not always accurate

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Misinformation affect

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Exposed to misleading information we tend to remember

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Method of loci

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Association of words in a list with visualization of places on a familiar path

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Context dependent memory

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Easier recall of information while in the same context of environment and which it was acquired

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State dependent memory

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Memories that are triggered or enhanced by a persons current mood because of the relationship to the memories formed when you were in a similar state

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