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Chapter 6 Quiz Flashcards

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Amygdala

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the part of the brain that regulates basic emotions

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Advance Organizers

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activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentation

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Analogies

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Images, concepts, or narratives that compare new material to information students already understand

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Attention

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active focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others

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Automaticity

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a level of rapidly and ease such that tasks can be performed or skills utilized with little mental effort

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Brain Stem

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the part of the brain at the base that controls basic functions common to all animals

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Cerebellum

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the part of the brain that controls smooth, coordinated movement

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concept mapping

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diagramming main ideas and the connections between them

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Corpus Collosum

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connects the two hemispheres of the brain and coordinates their function

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Dendrites

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part of a brain cell at the end of a neuron that helps conduct information

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distributed practice

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technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time

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Dual Code Theory of Memory

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theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two days

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Elaboration

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the process of connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learners mind

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Enactment

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a learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks

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Episodic Memory

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a part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences

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flashbulb memory

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important events that are fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory

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Free-recall Learning

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learning of a list of items in any order

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Hippocampus

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part of the brain that controls transfer of information from short term to long term memory

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imagery

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mental visualization of images to improve memory

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Inert Knowledge

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learned information that could be applied to a wide range of situations but whose use is limited to restricted, often artificial, applications

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Information Processing Theory

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Cognitive Theory of learning that describes the processing, storage, and retrieval of knowledge in my mind

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Initial Letter Strategies

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strategies for learning in which letters of items to be memorized are made into a more easily remembered word or phrase

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Interference

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Inhibition of recall of certain information in memory

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Interference

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inhibition of recall of certain information by the presense of other in memory

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Key word method

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a strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items

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Levels of Processing theory

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explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amoun of mental processing it receives

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limbic system

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layer immediately above the brainstem, composed of the thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amyglada

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Loci Method

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a strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations

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long term memory

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the components of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time

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massed practice

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technique in which facts or skills to be learned are repeated often over a concentrated period of time

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Meaningful Learning

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mental processing of new information that relates to previously learned knowledge

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Metacognition

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thinking about thinking

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metacognitive skills

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methods for learning, studying or solving problems

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mnemonics

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devices or strategies for aiding the memory

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neurons

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a long cell in the brain that helps transmit information

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note-taking

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a study strategy that requires decisions about what to write

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outlining

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representing the main points of material in hierarchical format

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paired associate learning

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learning of items in linked pairs so that when one member of a pair is presented, the other can be recalled

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Pegword Method

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a strategy in which images are used to link lists of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers

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Perception

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a persons interpretation of stimuli

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PQ4R method

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a study strategy that has students preview, question, read, reflect, recite and review material

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Primary Effect

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the tendency for the items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily than other items

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Proactive Facilitation

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increased ability to learn mew information based on the presence of previously acquired information

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Proactive Inhibitation

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decreased ability to learn new information, caused by interference from existing knowledge

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Procedural Memory

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a part of long term memory that stores information about how to do things

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Recency effect

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the tendency for items at the end of a list to be recalled more easily than other items

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rehearsal

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mental repetition of information, which can improve its retention

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retroactive Facilitation

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increased comprehension of previously learned information because of the acquisition of new information

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Retroactive Inhibition

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decreased ability to recall previously learned information caused by learning of new information

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rote learning

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memorization of facts or associations that might be essentially arbitrary

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schemata

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mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information; the singular is schema

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schema theory

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theory stating that new information is stored in long-term memory in schemata, which provide a structure for making sense of new information

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self-questioning strategies

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learning strategies that call on student to ask themselves who, what, where and how questions as they read material

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semantic memory

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a part of long term memory that stores facts and general knowledge

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Sensory Register

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component of the memory system in which information is received and held for very short periods of time

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Serial Learning

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memorization of a series of items in a particular order

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short term memory

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the composed of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds. (working Memory)

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Summarizing

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writing brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read

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Synapses

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tiny branches on the end of the dendrite that receive stimuli and pass them on to other neurons or to the brain

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Thalmus

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receives information about all senses except smell, and passes the information on to the rest of the brain

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Verbal Learning

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Learning of words

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Working Memory

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the component of memory in which limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds

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