Unit V - Cognitive Psychology Flashcards
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Cognition
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mental processes/activities to processing/storing info
2
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George Sperling
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- developed partial report technique
- presented participants with letters in rows and told them to recall them
- demonstrated visual sensory memory can hold lots of info but is forgotten quickly
3
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Iconic Sensory Memory
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(I con see it)
- momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli
- lasts less than half a second
4
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Echoic Sensory Memory
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(echo, echo, echo)
- momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli
- lasts less than 4 seconds
5
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Chunking
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- organizing items to familiar, manageable units
- often occurs automatically
6
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Maintenance Rehearsal (Shallow Processing)
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just reading through your notes
7
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Short-Term Memory
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- George Miller (JV)
- found out that we can only save 7 pieces of info at a time
8
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Working Memory
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- Alan Baddeley (JV2)
- a hypothetical “manager” focuses attention and pulls info from long term memory
9
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Elaborative Rehearsal (Deep Processing)
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unlimited capacity storage that you can hold for a long time
10
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Encoding
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learning info and taking it in
11
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Explicit (Declarative) Memories
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experiences we can declare
12
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Episodic Memory
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- memories in an “episode”
- you tie back to a specific time
13
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Semantic Memory
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- general knowledge
- doesn’t tie to a specific time
14
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Implicit (Non Declarative) Memories
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- skills
- procedures
- conditioned associations
15
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Procedural Memory
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memories that include skills, operations, and actions
