Cognitive Psychology

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Titchener

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structuralism

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structuralism

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break consciousness down into specific mental structures using introspection

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reactions to structuralism

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functionalism, behaviourism, and Gestalt psychology

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method of savings

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after memorizing a list, compare the number of times you have to read the list to rememorize it

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processes of memory

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encoding, storage, and retrieval

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generation-recognition model

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explains why we’re better at recognition than recall because recall involves the same mental process involved in recognition

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words presented ____ of a list are remembered best

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last

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clustering

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when asked to recall a list of words, people tend to recall words belonging to the same category

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stage theory of memory

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memories enter systems in a specific order: sensory, short-term, long-term

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other words for visual memory and auditory memory

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iconic memory and echoic memory

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whole-report procedure

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subjects asked to look for a fraction of a second at a visual display of nine items and asked to recall them after; remembered four on average

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partial-report procedure

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same as whole but subjects asked to recall letters on a specific row; had nearly perfect recall (Sperling)

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George Miller

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Seven plus or minus two

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elaborative rehearsal

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organizing the material and associating it with information you already have in long-term memory

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types of long-term memory

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procedural and declarative (further split into semantic and episodic)

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short-term memory encoding

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tends to be phonological or acoustic rather than visual

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long-term memory encoding

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more likely to be encoded on the basis of their meaning

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semantic verification task

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subject asked to indicate whether or not a simple statement presented is true or false; time to answer is called response latency

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Collins and Loftus

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spreading activation model

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spreading activation model

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semantic memory organized into map of interconnected concepts; key is the distance between the concepts

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semantic feature-comparison model

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semantic memory contains feature lists of concepts; the key is the amount of overlap in the feature lists of the concepts

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Smith, Shoben, and Rips

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semantic feature-comparison model

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competing theory against semantic feature-comparison model

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levels-of-processing theory/depth of processing theory: what determines how you will remember something is how you process the material (deeper processing = greater likelihood of remembering)

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Craik and Lockhart

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depth of processing theory

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Paivio’s dual-code hypothesis

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information can be encoded visually (concrete information) and verbally (abstract information)

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decay theory

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if info in long-term memory is not used or rehearsed, it will be forgotten

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inhibition theory

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forgetting is due to the activities that have taken place between original learning and later recall

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proactive inhibition

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what you learned earlier interferes with what you learn later

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retroactive inhibition

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when you forget what you learned earlier as you learn something new

Question 30

Bartlett

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prior knowledge and expectations influence recall (War of the Ghosts; people reconstructed story in line with their own culture)

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Zeigarnik effect

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tendency to remember incomplete tasks better than completed tasks

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mental set

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tendency to keep repeating solutions that worked in other situations

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functional fixedness

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inability to use a familiar object in an unfamiliar way

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divergent thinking

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thinking that involves producing as many creative answers to a question as possible

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Kahneman and Tversky

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heuristics

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availability heuristic

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making decisions about frequencies based upon how easy it is to imagine the items involved

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representativeness heuristic

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categorizing things on the basis of whether they fit the prototypical, stereotypical, or representative image of the category

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base-rate fallacy

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using prototypical or stereotypical factors rather than actual numerical information about which category is more numerous e.g. “Only 6% of applicants make it into this school, but my son is brilliant! They are certainly going to accept him!”

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phoneme

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smallest sound unit of language

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morpheme

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smallest units of Meaning (Morpheme)

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when does language develop according to cognitive developmental theorists?

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end of the sensorimotor period and continues to develop according to their cognitive level

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Three important concepts associated with Chomsky

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deep and surface grammatical structure & transformational rules

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surface structure

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actual word order of the words in a sentence

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deep structure

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underlying form that specifies the meaning of a sentence

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transformational rules

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tell us how we can change from one sentence form to another

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Benjamin Whorf

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linguistic relativity hypothesis

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linguistic relativity hypothesis

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our perception of reality is determined by the content of language (language affects the way we think)

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Spearman

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individual differences in intelligence are due to variations in the amount of a general factor (g); second factor that describes individual differences is called s

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Thurstone

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seven primary mental abilities

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Sternberg

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triarchic theory of intelligence: componential (performance on tests), experiential (creativity), and contextual (street smarts)

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Gardner

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theory of multiple intelligences (seven)

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Raymond Cattell

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fluid vs. crystalized intelligence

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Arthur Jensen

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intelligence as measured by IQ tests is purely genetic