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Unit 5: Reading Flashcards

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Parallel Processing

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Processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously

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Memory

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The persistence of learning over time through encoding, storage, and retrieval of information

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Encoding

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Getting information into our brain

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Storage

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Retain that information

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Retrieval

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Later get the information back out

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Sensory memory

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The brief recording of sensory information

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Short-term memory

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An activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored and forgotten

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Working Memory

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A form of short-term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming information

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Explicit Memories

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Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and “declare”

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Implicit Memories

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Retention independent of conscious recollection, something you do but cannot explain how to do

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What information do we automatically process?

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Information about space, time, and frequency

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Iconic memory

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Info remembered unconsciously and effortlessly

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Echoic Memory

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Info you must work to remember

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Chunking

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Organizing items into familiar, manageable units

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Mnemonic

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Memory aid to organize information. Example: PEMDAS

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Testing Effect

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Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading information

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Shallow processing vs. Deep processing

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Shallow Processing - only taking into account the structure or appearance of words
Deep Processing - processing that goes in depth on the meaning of words

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Parts of the brain that aid in explicit memory

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Frontal lobe, temporal lobe, and hippocampus

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Parts of the brain that aid in implicit memory

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Basal ganglia, cerebellum, and hippocampus

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Flashbulb memories

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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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Long Term Potentiation

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An increase in a cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation

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Automatic vs. Effortful memory processing

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Automatic memory involves implicit memories without conscious recall. Effortful memories involves explicit memories with conscious recall

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How is memory measured?

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In three levels of retention:
1. Recall
2. Recognition
3. Relearning

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Retrieval Cues

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External cues that can trigger memories

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Priming

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External cues that activate associations that help us retrieve memories

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State Dependent Memory

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Memory that depends on the emotional state you were in

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Context Driven Memory

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Memory that depends on where you are and what you are doing

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Mood Congruent

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Retaining to the same physical context or emotional state in which we formed a memory can help retrieve it

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Serial Position Effect

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Tendency to best recall the last and first items in a list

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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 recall memories from one’s past

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Storage Decay

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Poor Durability of stored memories

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Proactive interference

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When old information blocks the retrieval of new information

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Retroactive interference

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When new information blocks the retrieval of old information

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Repression

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A defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

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Misinformation Effect

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Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event

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Source Amnesia

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Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experiences, heard about, read about, or imagined. Can be the cause of false memories

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Deja Vu

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The eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience

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Cognition

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Mental activates associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating

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Prototype

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A mental image or best example of a category

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Convergent Thinking

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Narrows problem solutions to determine the single best one

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Divergent Thinking

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Expands the number of possible problem solutions

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Creativity

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Ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

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What part of the brain is responsible for creativity

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Left Parietal lobe

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5 Components of Creativity

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  1. Expertise
  2. Imaginative Thinking Skills
  3. A venturesome personality
  4. Intrinsic motivation
  5. A creative environment
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Algorithm vs. Heuristics

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Algorithms are logical rules that guarantee the answer. Heuristic is simple thinking that allows us to solve problems efficiently (but more error prone)

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Confirmation Bias

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Searching for an answer you want and ignoring what you don’t like

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Fixation and Mental Sets

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Create an inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective, which leads us to only focus on one solution

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Intuition

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An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

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Overconfidence

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The tendency to be more confident than correct, to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments

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Representative Heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information

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Availability Heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common

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Language

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Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

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Phonemes

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In a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit

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Morphemes

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In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning

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Grammer

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In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

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Babbling Stage

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4 Months old - Children will start uttering various sounds, unrelated to the household language

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One-Word Stage

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1-2 Years old - Child mainly speaks in single words

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Two-Word Stage

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2 Years old - Child speaks in two-word statements

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Telegraphic Stage

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Early speech, child speaks using nouns and verbs

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Broca’s Area Damage

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Understand but not speak

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Wernicke’s Area Damage

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Speak but not understand

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