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TEST 4-Memory and Thinking Flashcards

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What is the retention of information or experience over time?

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Memory

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What are the three memory phases?

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Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval

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What are the two types of memory encoding?

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Automatic and Effort

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What is the type of memory encoding that involves paying attention, processing deeply, and using mental imagery?

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Effortfull

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What is selective attention?

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Focusing on a specific aspect of an experience while ignoring other stimuli

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What is divided attention?

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Concentrating on more than one activity at a time

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What is sustained attention?

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Ability to maintain attention to a selected stimulus for a prolonged period of time

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What is sustained attention also called?

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vigilance

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What are the three levels of processing?

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Shallow, Intermediate and deep

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What is the formation of a number of different connections around a stimulus at any given level of memory encoding?

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Elaboration

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Who developed the dual code for mental and verbal code?

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Paivo

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What is the Atkinson-shiffen theory?

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Involves 3 seperate systems-
Sensory memory
Short term memory
Long term memory

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What are the subsections of Sensory Memory?

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Echoic memory-Auditory

Iconic memory-Visual

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What is the formula for short term memory?

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7 +- 2

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What is chunking?

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Grouping or packing info that exceeds the 7 +-2 into higher order units that can be remembered as single units

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What is the concious repition of information?

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rehersal

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17
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What type of memory is the combination of components that include short term memory and attention that allows us to hold information temporarily as we perform cognitive tasks?

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Working memory

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What is the formula for working memory?

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4 +- 2

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What is Boddley’s Model?

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Phonological loop
Visuo-spacial sketchpad
Central excecutive

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What are the two subsets of Long term memory?

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Explicit memory and Implicit memory

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What are the two subsets of Explicit memory?

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Episodic and semantic

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What are the 3 subsets of Implicit memory?

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procedural
Classical conditioning
Priming

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23
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What is episodic memory?

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Rentention of information about where, what, when of life’s happenings
-includes autobiographical memory

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What is semantic memory?

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Pertains to a person’s knowledge about the world

individual of a person’s identity

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25
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What is procedural memory?

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Memory for skills

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What is priming?

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activation of information in storage that helps them to remember new information faster and better

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What is retrieval?

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Information that was retained comes out of storage

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What is the serial position effect?

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tendancy to recall items at begining and end of a list

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What are the two subcategories of the serial position effect?

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Primacy-begining of list

Recency-end of list

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30
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Where do retrival cues take place?

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In working memory

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What is the memory task which allows us to to retrieve previously learned information?

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Recall

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32
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What is the memory task which allows us to only identify learned items from options?

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Recognition

33
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What is context dependant memory?

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When we have better recall when we attempt to recall information the same way we learned it

34
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What is flashbulb memory?

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Memories of emotional significance which are recalled with accuracy and vivid imagery

35
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What is repression?

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A defense mechanism in which a person is so traumatized they forget and forget the act of forgetting

36
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What is motivated forgetting?

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when the pain or anxiety is so intolerable that they forcefully forget

37
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What is it called when information never enters long term memory?

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encoding failure

38
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What are retrival failures?

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Interference theory and decay theory

39
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What are the two subcategories of Interference theory?

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Proactive interference-Material learned earlier disrupts material learned later

Retroactive interference-When material learned later affects material learned earlier

40
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What is Anterograde amnesia?

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Memory disorder which affects retention of new info and events

41
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What is Retrograde amnesia?

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Memory disorder which affects past events

42
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What is the cognitive store?

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Emergency stash of mental capacity that allows individuals to avoid negative effects of harm to the brain

43
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What is the way information is processed and manipulated in remembering, thinking and knowing?

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Cognition

44
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What is the study of conciousness as well as cognitive neuroscience?

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Cognitive psychology

45
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What is the manipulation of information mentally by forming concepts, solving problems, making decisions and reflecting in a critical or creative manner?

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thinking

46
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What are mental categories that are used to group objects, events, and help us to make sense of information?

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Concepts

47
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What is a prototype model?

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When people use characteristic properties to create a representation of the average or ideal member

48
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What are the 4 steps of problem solving?

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Find and Frame
Develop good problem solving skills
Evaluate solutions
Rethink & Redefine problems

49
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What are subgoals?

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Intermedite goals which are devised to put us in a better postion to reach our final goal

50
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What are algorithms?

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Strategies that guarantee a solution to a problem

51
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What are heuristics?

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Shortcuts or guidelines that suggest a solution but do not guarantee a solution

52
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What are the 3 obstacles in problem solving?

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Fixation
Functional Fixation
Cognitive flexiblity

53
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What is fixation?

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Using previous strategies and failing to look at problem from a new perspective

54
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What is Functional Fixation?

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When individuals fail to solve a problem because they are fixated on things normal functions

55
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What is cognitive flexiblity?

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Recognizing that options are available and adapting to the situation

56
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What is the mental activity of transforming information to reach a conclusion?

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Reasoning

57
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What is inductive reasoning?

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Reasoning from a specific observations to make generalizations

58
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What is deductive reasoning?

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Reasoning from a generalized principle that we know to be true to a specific instance

59
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What involves evaluating alternatives and choosing among them?

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Decision making

60
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What are the two systems of Reasoning?

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Automatic and Controlled

61
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What is the automatic system of reasoning?

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Rapid, neuristic, associatative and intuitive

-involves following ones hunches

62
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What is the controlled system of reasoning?

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Slower, effortful, and analytical

-involves concious reflection

63
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What is a confirmation bias?

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tendancy to search for and use information which supports our ideas rather than refutes them

64
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What is a hindsight bias?

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tendency to report false after the fact

“I knew all along” effect

65
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What is availability heuristic?

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Prediction of the probability of an event based off ease of recalling or imagining similar events

66
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What is base rate neglect?

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Tendency to ignore information about general principles in favor of a very specific but vivid information

67
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What is the representivness heuristic?

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Tendency to make judgements about group membership based on physical apperance

68
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What is bias blind spot?

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when deep thinkers don’t recognize their own vunerablity to bias

69
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What is critical thinking?

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Means thinking reflectively and productively and evaluating evidence

70
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What is mindfulness?

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Being alert and mentally present for one’s everyday activities

71
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What is open mindedness?

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Being receptive to other ways of looking at things

72
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What is creativity?

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Ability to think about something in a novel and unusual way to devise unconventional solutions to problems

73
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What is divergent thinking?

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Produces many solutions to a problem

74
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What is convergent thinking?

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Produces single best solution to problem

75
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What is cognitive appraisal?

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Person’s interpretation of a situation

76
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What is Primary appraisal?

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Individuals interpretation of whether an even involves harm, a threat or challenge to be overcome

77
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What is secondary appraisal?

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Individuals evaluate resources to determine how effectively they can be used to cope with an event

78
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What is cognitive reappraisal?

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Involves regulating our feelings about an experience by looking at it from a different angle

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