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Encoding

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Getting info into our brain

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

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Memory

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Retaining encoded information is…

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Storage

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If you process many aspects simultaneously you are…

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Parallel processing

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Sensory memory

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Immediate, brief, recording of sensory information

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Activated memory that holds a few items for a short time

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Short term memory

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Relatively permanent & limitless storehouse of memory

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Long term memory

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Focused on active processing of incoming visual & auditory information

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Working memory

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Facts and experiences we consciously know or declare

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Explicit memory

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Encoding that requires attention and effort

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Effortful processing

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Automatic processing

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Unconscious encoding of incidental information

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Retention independent of recollection

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Implicit memory

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Iconic memory

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A fleeting sensory memory of visual stimuli

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A sensory memory of auditory stimuli

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Echoic memory

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Retrieval

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Getting info out of your brain

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Organizing items into familiar manageable units

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Chunking

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Mnemonics

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Memory aids (vivid imagery & organizational devices)

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Spacing effect

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Distributed study or practice yields better long term retention

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Enhanced memory after retrieving rather than reading information

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Testing effect

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Shallow processing

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Encoding on a basic level based on structure or words

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Encoding systematically based on meaning of words

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Deep processing

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Part of the brain that helps process explicit memories for storage

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Hippocampus

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Flashbulb memories

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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment

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

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Long term potentiation

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Recall

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A measure of memory in which a person must retrieve information learned earlier

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Inability to form new memories

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Anterograde amnesia

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Retrograde amnesia

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Inability to remember past events

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Convergent thinking

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Narrows the possible problem solutions to determine the best solution

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Divergent thinking

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Expands number of possible problem solutions

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Unconscious activation of certain associations, predisposing ones perception, memory or response.

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Priming

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A methodical procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem

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Algorithm

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Heuristic

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Simple thinking strategy that allows us to make judgements more efficiently

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Confirmation bias

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Tendency to search for information that supports our beliefs and ignore contradictory evidence

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Broca’s Area

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Controls language expression

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Impairment of language

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Aphasia

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Availability heuristic

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Eliminating likelihood of events based on their availability in memory. (If instances come quickly to mind then we think they are common)

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The way an issue is posed.

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Framing

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Tendency to approach a problem in a particular way (often successful in the past)

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Mental set

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Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent particular prototypes

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Representative heuristic

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Wernicke’s Area

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Controls language reception and comprehension

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Chomsky

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Universal language

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Skinner

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Conditioned language

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