Miscellaneous Terms Flashcards
Metacognition
Knowing what you know
Seeing that something is effecting your performance at a task
Elaborative encoding
Something is associated with something meaningful / and existing memory
Self-reference
Info that is personally relevant is more remembered
Maintenance rehearsal
Thinking of items over and over
Memory
Organized into association network
Schema
Framework that helps us organize and interpret behavior
False memory
More likely with memories from childhood
Consolidation
Long term memories are formed from short term memories
Executive functioning
Working memory capacity
Mental processes that help us complete tasks successfully.
Inter-rater reliability
Test scores should be scored in the same way by people of the same intelligence level