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Vocab 651-700 Flashcards

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In order, state the 3 - Box/Information Processing Model of Memory

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Sensory Memory
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory

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What are the two kinds of sensory memory?

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Iconic and Echoic

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3
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Short-term memory is also called what?

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Working Memory

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The ability to switch your attention to important information

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Cocktail Party Effect

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Memory of facts

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Declarative Memory

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Memories of specific events in your life

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Episodic Memory

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7
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Memories of words

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Semantic Memory

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Memories of skills

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Procedural Memory

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9
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Photographic memory is also called what?

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Eidetic Memory

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10
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A person’s memory of an important and emotionally powerful event

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Flashbulb Memory

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Process of matching a current event or fact with one already in memory

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Recognition

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12
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Retrieving a memory with an external cue

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Recall

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13
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Recalling items at the beginning of a list

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Primacy Effect

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14
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Recalling items at the end of a list

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Recency Effect

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15
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What is the primary-recency effect also called?

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Serial Position Effect

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16
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Old information interferes with new information

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Proactive Interference

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New information interferes with old information

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Retroactive Interference

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18
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The inability to encode new memories is called what?

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Anterograde Amnesia

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19
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The inability to recall old memories is called what?

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Retrograde Amnesia

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20
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Through repeated findings, neurons can strengthen connections between each other

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Long-Term Potentiation

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21
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Smallest unit of sound in a language

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Phonemes

22
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Smallest unit of meaning in a language

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Morpheme

23
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The grammar of a language; for example, where a verb is placed

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Syntax

24
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The one-word stage of speech is also called what?

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Holophrastic Speech

25
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The two-word stage of speech is also called what?

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Telegraphic Speech

26
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What is the misapplication of grammar rules (such as saying, “He goed.” instead of “He went.”) called?

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Overgeneralization
Overregularization

27
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Please name the researcher who came up with the concept known as a Language Acquisition Device

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Noam Chomsky

28
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Please name the researcher who came up with the theory known as the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

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Benjamin Whorf

29
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A rule that guarantees the right solution by using a formula

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Algorithm

30
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A rule of thumb: a rule that is generally, but not always, true

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Heuristic

31
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Name two kinds of heuristics

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Availability Heuristic
Representativeness Heuristic

32
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A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, or decision

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Availability Heuristic

33
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A cognitive bias in which an individual categorizes a situation based on a pattern of previous experiences. It can be useful when trying to make a quick decisions by it can also lead to belief in stereotypes

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Representativeness Heuristic

34
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The tendency to fall into establish patterns of thought

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Mental Set
Rigidity

35
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The inability to see a new use for a familiar object

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Functional Fixedness

36
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This bias occurs when we make illogical conclusions in order to confirm preexisting beliefs

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Belief Bias

37
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Tendency to maintain a belief even after the evidence we used to form the belief has been contradicted

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Belief Perseverance

38
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The erroneous belief that if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past it is less likely to happen in the future

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Gambler’s Fallacy

39
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Please name two kinds of thinking

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Convergent Thinking
Divergent Thinking

40
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When a test is consistent it is said to have what?

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Reliability

41
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When a test measures what it is supposed to measure it is said to be what?

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Valid

42
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Kind of intelligence which refers to our ability to solve problems

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Fluid Intelligence

43
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Kind of intelligence which refers to our accumulated knowledge over time

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Crystallized Intelligence

44
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Please name the researcher who developed the theory of multiple intelligences

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Howard Gardener

45
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Please name a proponent of Emotional Intelligence

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Daniel Goleman

46
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Please name two kinds of intelligence tests

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Standford-Binet
The Weschler

47
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How do you calculate a person’s IQ?

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Mental Age/Chronological Age * 100

48
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Please name two kinds of objective personality tests

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MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory)
MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)

49
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Tendency for performance on intelligence tests to increase throughout the century

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Flynn Effect

50
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A typical or prominent example of a concept

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Prototype

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