Unit 3 - Brain Training Flashcards
What type of conditioning is learning by linking two or more stimuli and anticipating events.
Classical Conditioning
What is operant conditioning?
behavior is strengthened if followed by reinforcer or diminished by punisher.
Cognition is our?
Thoughts, perspectives, and expectations
Learning that has persisted over time –info that has been stored and recalled?
Memory
Recalling, recognition, and relearning are all ways to?
Access memories
What kind of memory is concious, active, processing of incoming auditory and visual - spatial info, and of info retrieved from long-term memory?
Short-term / working memory
What kind of memory is the memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare?
Explicit memory
What kind of memory is the retention independent of conscious recollection?
Implicit memory
Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery for organizational devices?
Mnemonics
The difference between shallow and deep processing?
Shallow processing encodes information on basic auditory / visual levels based on the sound, structure or appearance of a word, while deep processing encodes semantically based on actual meaning associated with the word.
The primacy effect is when you remember something because you _____ and the recency effect is when you remember something because it was _____
Rehearsed it more
the most recent information
Failing to encode it, failing to retrieve it, experiencing storage decay. These are all ways we ____.
Forget.
Retrieval failure is more commonly known as _____ phenomenon.
“Tip of the tongue”
When there is false information in a memory that is called the ____ effect, while forgetting or misrecalling information is called _____.
Misinformation, source misattribution
Mental frameworks that help us interpret information are better known as _____.
Schemas
