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Chapter 7 and 8 Flashcards

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Encoding

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involves forming a memory code

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Storage

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involves maintaining encoded info in memory over time

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Retrieval

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involves recovering info from memory stores

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Attention

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involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events

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Shallow processing is what encoding

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structural encoding

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Shallow processing

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emphasizes the physical structure of the stimulus

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Intermediate processing is what encoding

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phonemic encoding

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Intermediate processing

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emphasizes what a word sounds like

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Deep processing is what encoding

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semantic encoding

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Deep processing

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emphasizes the meaning of verbal input through elaboration

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In what order are the types of judgement most effective

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Semantic, rhyme/phonemic, visual/structural

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Levels of processing theory

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proposes that deeper levels of processing result in longer-lasting memory codes

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NMDA receptor does what

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encourages the flow of info from one neuron to another

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NMDA receptors become activated when

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the “sending” neuron releases glutamate and the “receiving” neuron excites

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LTP is

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long-term potentiation which results in enhanced neural processing

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Visual imagery

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the creation of visual images to represent words to be remembered, if it is easier for concrete objects, it is dual-coding theory

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Elaboration

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the linking of a stimulus to other info at the time of encoding

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Dual-coding theory

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holds that memory is enhanced by forming both semantic and visual codes since either can lead to recall

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Self-referent encoding

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making info personally meaningful

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Sensory memory

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preserves info in its original sensory form for a brief time, usually a fraction of a second

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Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory storage

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sensory input > sensory memory > attention > rehearsal of short-term memory > storage > long-term memory > retrieval back to short-term memory

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STM

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limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed info for up to about 20 seconds

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Rehearsal

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process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about info

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Echoic memory

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holding auditory info for 1-2 seconds

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Iconic memory
holding visual memory for 1 second
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Chunk
group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit
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Working memory
modular system for temporary storage and manipulation of info
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WMC
working memory capacity referring to one's ability to hold and manipulate info in conscious attention
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LTM
long-term memory is an unlimited capacity that can hold info over lengthy periods of time
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Sperling's sensory memory experiment in 1960
participants stared at a screen and rows of letters were flashed for 1/20th of a second and they were asked to repeat as many letters as possible, but when accompanied by a tone, they can remember more
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Retrograde amnesia
no memories backward of injury (usually just of the event)
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Anterograde amnesia
no memory forward after injury
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Sensory memory is
a copy of input, has limited capacity and stores info for 1/4 second
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STM is
largely phonemic, has a small capacity, and stores info for up to 20 seconds
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LTM is
largely semantic, has no known capacity limit, ranges from minutes to years
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Sensory inputs cause
sensory memory (unattended info is lost) > STM through attention (unrehearsed info is lost) > LTM through encoding (some info is lost over time through retrieval
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Flashbulb memories
thought to be unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events
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Order of report/recall in STM tests
starts with items most recent, then reports the first items through primacy, then in the middle
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Conceptual hierarchy
multilevel classification system based on common properties among items
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Schema
organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or even abstracted from previous experience with the object/event
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Semantic network
consists of nodes representing concepts, joined together by pathways that link related concepts
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Transfer-appropriate processing
trying to recall (frontal lobes) and actually recalling (hippocampus) are different
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Cramming for exams is bad because
spaced practice is better than massed practice because the context at encoding is similar for all repetitions, but in spaced, the context will differ w/ each repetition
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Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
the temporary inability to remember something you know, accompanied by a feeling that it's just out of reach
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LTM splits into
implicit and explicit memory
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Explicit memory (conscious recall) splits into
semantic and episodic memory
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Implicit memory (w/out conscious recall) splits into
procedural memory and priming
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semantic memory : episodic memory
facts and general knowledge : personally experienced events
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procedural memory : priming
motor and cognitive skills : enhanced identification of objects/words
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Misinformation effect
when participants' recall of an event they witnessed is altered by introducing misleading post-event info
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Source-monitoring
process of making inferences about the origins of memories
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Source-monitoring error
when a memory derived from one source is misattributed to another source
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Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve
forgetting is extremely rapid immediately after the original learning and then levels off
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Retention
proportion of material retained
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Decay theory
forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time
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Retroactive interference
when new info impairs the retention of previously learned info
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Proactive interference
when previously learned info interferes with the retention of new info
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Implications for recovered memories
confidence in a memory doesn't mean that it is real
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LAD
language acquisition device is an innate mechanism/process that facilitates the learning of language
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Behaviorist theory
BF Skinner argued that children learn language the same way they learn everything: through imitation, reinforcement, and conditioning
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Nativist theories
Humans have an inborn/native propensity to develop language
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Interactionist theories
language development is because of biological neural development, cognitive development, and linguistic environment
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deep : surface
meaning : wording
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Linguistic relativity
one's language determines the nature of one's thought
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0-4 mon.
can tell difference between speech sounds (phonemes)
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4-6 mon.
babbles consonants
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6-10 mon.
understands some words and simple requests
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10-12 mon.
begins to use single words
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12-18 mon.
vocab of 30-50 words
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18-24 mon.
2 word phrases ordered according to syntactic rules; vocab of 50-200 words
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24-36 mon.
vocab of 1,000 words, produces phrases and incomplete sentences
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36-60 mon.
vocab grows to more than 10,000 words, production of full sentences and morphemes
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Functional fixedness
tendency to perceive an item only in terms of its most common use
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Mental set
exists when people persist in using problem-solving strategies that have worked in the past
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Insight
when people suddenly discover the correct solution to a problem after struggling with it
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Heuristic
guiding principle or "rule of thumb" used in problem solving
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Broca's area
language production
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Wernicke's area
language comprehension
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Damage to front part of left temporal lobe
difficulty to identifying humans
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Damage to lower left temporal lobe
trouble identifying animals
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Damage where temporal and occipital lobes meet
trouble naming tools
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Incubation effect
when new solutions surface for a previously unsolved problem after a period of time non consciously thinking about the problem
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Jim Greeno's 3 classes of problems
problems of inducing structure (completion and analogy), problems of arrangement (string and anagrams), problems of transformation
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Simon's theory of bounded rationality
asserts that people tend to use simple strategies in decision making that focus on only a few facets of available options and often result in irrational decisions
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Availability heuristic
basing the estimated probability of an event on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind (many people divorce because everyone I know is divorced)
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Representativeness heuristic
basing the estimated probability of an event on how similar it is to the typical prototype of that event (this will happen because this happened in an event like this one)
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Conjunction fallacy
when people estimate that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone
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IQ =
mental age/chronological age x 100
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Prospect theory
people simplify available info and choose the prospect that offers the best personal value
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Frequency format hypothesis
how often things occur, but how likely
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Layperson's conceptions of intelligence
verbal, practical, and social
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identical twins reared apart are more similar than fraternal twins
shaped by heredity
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Identical twins reared together are more similar than identical twins reared apart
shaped by environment
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siblings reared together are more similar than siblings reared apart
shaped by environment
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biological parents and the children they rear are more similar than unrelated people who are reared apart
heredity and environment
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Adopted children show similarity to their biological parents and to their adoptive parents
heredity and environment

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