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Cognition

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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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metacognition

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Keeping track of and evaluating our mental processes

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concepts

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

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prototype

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Mental image or best example of a category

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How are prototypes useful?

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They make sorting items into categories easier as matching the new item to a prototype is quick and easy

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schemas

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Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

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Assimilation

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Interpreting new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

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Accommodate

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Adapting current schemas to incorporate new information

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creativity

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Ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

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Convergent thinking

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Narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution

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divergent thinking

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expanding the number of possible problem solutions, creative thinking that diverges in different directions

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What are the 5 components of creativity

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Expertise
imaginative thinking skills
venturesome personality
intrinsic motivation
creative environment

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Selective attention

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Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

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Cocktail party effect

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Ability to attend to only 1 voice within a sea of many others as you chat with a party guest

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Inattentional blindness

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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

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Change blindness

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Failing to notice changes in the environment, a form of inattentional blindness

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perceptual set

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Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another

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What can expectations give us and what does it effect?

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It may give us a perceptual set that would effect top-down and our senses

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What are formed through experiences?

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Concepts/schemas that organize and interpret unfamiliar information

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What can effect interpretations?

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Immediate context, motivations, and emotions

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gesalt

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an organized whole, emphasizes the tendency to integrate pieces into meaningful wholes

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figure-ground

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the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings

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What are some basic features of a scene that are processed instantly and automatically?

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color, movement, light-dark contrast

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how does the mind bring order and form to other stimuli?

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by grouping

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grouping

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tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

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depth perception

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ability to see objects in 3 dimensions although the images that strike the retina are 3 dimensional, also allows us to judge distance

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Binocular cues

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A depth cue that depends on the use of 2 eyes

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convergence

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A cue to nearby object’s distance enabled by the brain combining retinal images

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retinal disparity

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Binocular cue for perceiving depth. Compares the different retinal images from the 2 eyes, where it computers distance from disparity

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if an object is close to the eyes, is the disparity greater or smaller?

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greater

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if an object is far from the eyes, is the disparity greater or smaller?

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smaller

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Monocular cues

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Dept cue that is available to either eye alone

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Relative clarity

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Objects that are further away appear hazy or blurry. Closer objects are sharper and clearer

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Relative size

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2 objects of relative size, the one that seems smaller are farther away

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texture gradient

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Further away objects are smoother, closer objects have more texture

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linear perspective

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Parallel lines appear to meet in the distance. A sharper angle of convergence means a greater perceived distance

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interposition

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If one objects partially blocks our view of another, it is perceived as closer

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How does the brain normally compute motion?

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It computes motion on the assumption that shrinking objects are retreating and enlarging objects are approaching

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If a small object and a large object move at the same speed, which do we perceive as faster?

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The smaller object

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Stroboscopic movement

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Illusion of continuous movement experienced when viewing a rapid series of slightly varying still images

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Phi phenomenon

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Illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession

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Autokinetic effect

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Illusionary movement of a still spot of light in a dark room

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perceptual constancy

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Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

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is perceptual constancy a top-down or bottom-up process?

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top-down

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Color constancy

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Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object

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Brightness constancy

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Perceiving an object as having constant brightness despite illumination variation

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Shape constancy

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Perceiving the form of familiar objects as constant while the retina receives changing images of them

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How does shape constancy work in the brain

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The visual cortex neurons learning to associate different views of an object

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Size constancy

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Perceiving an object as having unchanging size despite our visual distance from it changing

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Critical period

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A period when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences is required

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Perceptual adaptation

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Ability to adjust to changed sensory input, including an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field

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What are the 2 arguments about human perception?

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Kant - knowledge comes from inborn ways of organizing sensory experiences
Lock - experiences shape how we perceive the world

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executive functions

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Cognitive skills that work together, enabling organization, planning, and goal-oriented behavior

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algorithms

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Methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem

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heuristics

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Simple thinking strategy that allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently

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what are 2 differences between algorithms and heuristics?

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  • heuristics is speeder
  • heuristics is more error prone than algorithms
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insight

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Sudden realization of a problem’s solution, contrasts with strategy-based solutions

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What part of the brain does insight activate?

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Right above the ear in the right temporal lobe

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Confirmation bias

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Tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

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Mental set

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Tendency to approach a problem in 1 particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past

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intuition

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Effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought

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Representative heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to represent particular prototypes, might lead to us ignoring other relevant information

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Availability heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory, if instances come readily to the mind, those events are perceived as common

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overconfidence

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Tendency to be more confident than correct, overestimating the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements

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Planning fallacy

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Overestimating future leisure time and income

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sunk-cost fallacy

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Sticking to an original plan because we have invested our time, instead of switching to a new, more efficient approach

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Belief perserverance

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Persistence of one’s initial conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited

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Motivated reasoning

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Using their conclusions to assess the evidence instead of objectively reviewing the evidence

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framing

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The way an issue is posed, can significantly effect decisions and judgements

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nudge

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Framing choices in a way that encourages people to make decisions

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Is intuition adaptive?

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yes

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What is intuition made from?

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experience

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memory

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Persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information

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What are the 3 retention measures?

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Recall, recognition, relearning

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Recall

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Retrieving information that isn’t not in your conscious awareness but that was learned at an earlier time

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Recognition

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Identifying items previously learned

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Relearning

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learning something more quickly when it is learned a second or at a later time

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What is Hermann Ebbinghaus known for?

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Ebbinghaus retention curve

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What does the Ebbinghaus retention curve portray?

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Shows that additional rehearsal/overlearning of verbal information increases retention

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What are the parts of the information-processing model?

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Encode, store, retrieve

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encode

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process of getting information into the memory system

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store

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Process of retaining encoded information over time

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retrieve

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Process of getting information out of memory storage

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What is an example of neurplasticity in memory?

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When you learn something new, the brain’s neural connections change

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what are the 3 parts of the multi-store model?

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Sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memroy

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Sensory memory

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Immediate, brief recording of sensory information in the memory system

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Short-term memory

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Briefly activated memory of a few items that is alter stored or forgottten

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Long-term memory

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Relatively permanent and limitless archive of the memory system

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Working memory

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Conscious active processing of both sensory information and information retrieved from long-term memory

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What does working memory help prolong and through what?

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Prolongs memory storage through maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal

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Central executive

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Memory component that coordinates the activities of the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad

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phonological loop

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Memory component that briefly holds auditory information

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visuospatial sketchpad

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Memory component that briefly holds information about objects’ appearance and location in space

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long-term potentiation

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Increase in a nerve cell’s firing potential after brief rapid stimulation, a neural basis for learning and memory

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explicit memories

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retention of facts and experiences that we can consciously know and “declare”

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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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unconscious encoding of incidental information or familiar/well-learned information

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implicit memories

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retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection

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procedural memory example

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how to ride a bike

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classical conditioning

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type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli and anticipate events

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what are 3 things that are automatically processed without conscious effort?

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space, time, frequency

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iconic memory

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a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli, a picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second

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echoic memory

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a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli

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How many pieces of information can we hold in short-term memory. Who proposed this?

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7+-2
George Miller

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what age group does task-switching not effect?

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none, task switching/multitasking for all age groups is worse than focusing on 1 task at a time

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chunking

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organizing items into familiar, manageable units that often occurs automatically

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mnemonics

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memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

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what occurs when people process information in an area they have developed expertise in?

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they form hierarchies, they are composed of broad categories that divide into subcategories (flowchart)

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spacing effect

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tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice

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What are the results of massed practice?

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speedy short-term learning and more confidence (false or not)
Forgetting the material quicker

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Effects of distributed practice

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better long-term recal

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testing effect

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enhanced memory after retrieving

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Shallow processing

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encoding on a basic level
ex. based on structure or appearance of words (structural encoding, phonemic encoding)

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Deep Processing

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encoding semantically, based on the meaning of words and yields the best retention

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What type of information do people excel at remembering?

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personally relevant information

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self-reference effect

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tendency to remember self-relevant information

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semantic

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Explicit memory of facts and general knowledge

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episodic

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Explicit memory of personally experienced events

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What are the 2 conscious memory systems?

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Semantic and episodic

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How do our schemas effect memory processing?

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New explicit memories are more readily stored if they fit within existing schemas than if they don’t

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What are the brain regions that process and store new explicit memories and episodes?

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Frontal lobes and hippocampus

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What part of the brain is activated when you remember a memory

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Prefrontal cortex for working memory processing

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What type of memory does the left frontal lobe hold?

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Calculative memories, semantic

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What type of memory does the right frontal lobe hold

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Visual scenes, episodic

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Hippocampus function in memory

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Processes explicit memories of facts and events for storage

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What happens to the hippocampus’s ability to process memories as we age?

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It grows, enabling people to be able to construct more detailed memories

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What occurs if there is damage to the hippocampus?

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The formation of explicit memories are disrupted and the recall of them degrade

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What does the rear end of the hippocampus do?

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Processes spatial memory

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Are memories stored permanently in the hippocampus?

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no

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How does the hippocampus act as a loading dock?

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It is the region where the brain registers and temporarily holds the elements of an episode, then it moves it to the cortex

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memory cosolidation

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Neural storage of a long-term memory, hippocampus to cortex

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What supports memory consolidation?

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sleep

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Cerebellum function in memory

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Forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning

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What happens to memory if the cerebellum is damaged?

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People are unable to develop certain conditioned reflexes, like associating smoke with fire

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Basal ganglia function in memory

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Facilitates the formation of our procedural memories for skills

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How do strong emotions contribute to memory?

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Strong emotions make more glucose energy available to fuel brain activity, improving memory

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What provokes the amygdala to make a memory trace?

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stress

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memory trast

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lasting physical change as the memory forms

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Amygdala function in memory

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Improves memory in emotionally-charged situations

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How do emotional events effect attention?

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Attention and recall is focused on high priority information while irrelevant details are reduced

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Flashbulb memories

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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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recall

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Ability to produce previously learned informationre

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recognition

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ability to identify previously learned items

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Retrospective memory

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The past

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prospective memory

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Intended future actions

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Priming (mem)

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Activation of certain associations predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response

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Is priming implicit or explicit

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Implicit because it occurs without conscious awareness

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Encoding specificity principle

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Cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping recall

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Context dependent meory

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Memory is effected by the cues we have associated with that context

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State dependent memory

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What is learned in one state of being is more easily recalled when we are in that state again

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mood congruent memories

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Tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current good or bad mood

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Serial position effect

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Tendency to recall the last items in a list and the first items in a list after a delay

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Receny effect

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Tendency to recall the last items in a list the best

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Primacy effect

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Tendency to recall the first items in a list after a delay

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Interleaving

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Retrieval practice strategy that involves mixing the study of different topics

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Anterograde amnesia

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Inability to form new memories

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Retrograde amnesia

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Inability to remember information from one’s past

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What occurs when people with anterograde amnesia learn something?

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Their automatic processing was still active and working so they were able to learn a skill but unable to remember consciously learning it

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Encoding failure

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The inability to encode working/short term memory ino long-term memory

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displacement

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Information that isn’t encoded in long term storage being forgotten as new information enters short-term memory

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Storage decay

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Gradual fading of information stored in the brain over time due to the passage of time or lack of use

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Retrieval failure

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Failure to retrieve memories from long term memory

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Proactive interference

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Forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information

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retroactive interference

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Backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information

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Why is the information presented in the hour before sleep more remembered?

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There are less interfering events between the information presented and sleep

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Repression

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Psychoanalytic theory that a basic defense mechanism blocks memories due to undesirable memories

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reconsolidation

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Process in which previously stored memories are potentially altered before being stored again

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Misinformation effect

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Occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading informaion

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Source amnesia

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Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined

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Deja vu

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Sense that an event has been experienced before due to cues from the current situation unconsciously triggering retrieval of an earlier experience

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Imagination Inflation

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Memory phenomenon in which vividly imagining an event markedly increases confidence that the event actually occurred

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Infantile Amnesia

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Inability to remember events from early childhood

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Elaborative rehearsal

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Linking of new information to material that is already known

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Maintenance Rehearsal

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repeating stimuli in their original form to retain them in short term memory

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Method of Loci

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Mnemonic device that involves imagining placing items you want to remember along a route you know well, or in specific locations in somewhere familiar

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Hierachies

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systems in which concepts are arranged from more general to more specific classes

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Structural encoding

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Shallow processing that emphasizes the physical structure of the stimulus

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Phonemic encoding

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Encoding of sounds

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Procedural memory

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Implicit memory that involves motor skills and behavioral habits

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Apparent movement

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Perception that a stationary object is moving

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Gambler’s Fallacy

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fallacy of thinking that future probabilities are altered by past events

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Sunk Cost Fallacy

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making decisions about a current situation based on what one has previously invested in the situation

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Autobiographical memory

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Special form of episodic memory consisting of a person’s recollection of his or her life experiences

AP Psychology (4 decks)

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