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exam 3 Flashcards

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Memory strategy

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any method aimed at improving long term or short term retention of information

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Divided attention

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doing two tasks at a time - can cause memory to decrease of one task

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levels of processing

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processing information in a deeper level, proven to improve memory

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survival processing

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encoding information based on how likely it would be to help you survive, or how it would help you survive

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generation effect

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elaboration

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concentrate on the specific meaning of a particular concept; relate this concept to your prior knowledge and to interconnected concepts that you have already mastered

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rehearsal

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repeating the information you want to learn over and over again

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distinctiveness

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on memory trace is different from all other memory traces

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von restorff effect

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when one thing is very distinct or isolated from others, its more likely to be remembered

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self reference effect

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relating information to yourself in order to encode it better

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encoding specificity principle

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if the state or mood that you are in when you enocde info matches the state or mood you are in when you recall info, recall improves

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12
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overconfidence

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believing that you know all the concepts, becuase you just learned them and then not studying enough

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total-time hypothesis

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the amount of info that you learn depends on the total time you devote to learning

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14
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distributed practice effect

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you will remember more material if you spread your learning trials over time

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spaced learning

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spread learning trials over time

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massed learning

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cramming, learning the material all at once

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desirable difficulties

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a learning situation taht is somewhat challenging, but not too difficult

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18
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testing effect

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being tested on material improves memory

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19
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mnemonics

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mental strategies designed to improve your memory

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keyword method

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create an image that links a keyword with the meaning of a new word - chompipe: turkey chomping on a pipe

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21
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organization

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using a systematic order to the material they want to learn

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chunking

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combining several small units into larger units

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hierarchy

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items are arraged in a series of classes from most general to most basic

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first letter technique

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ROYGBIV

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25
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narrative technique

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making a story that links a series of words together

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multimodal approach

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27
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restrospective memory

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remembering info from the past

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prospective memory

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remembering things you need to do in the future

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29
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external memory aid

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post it note on the fridge that says get milk

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30
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metacognition

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your knowledge and control of your cognitive processes

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self knowledge

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what people believe about themselves

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metamemory

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people’s knowledge, monitoring and control of thier memory

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33
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foresight bias

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the tendency, when studying for an exam, to be be overconfident about performance on that exam

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meta comprehension

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your thoughts about language comprehension

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reading strategies

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read a passage, wait a few minutes, and them explain that passage to yourself, think about how to manage your own reading

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36
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inference

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logical interpretations and conclusion that were neer part of the original stimulus material

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category

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set of objects that belong together

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concept

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mental representations of a category

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prototype

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the best most typical example of a category - ideal representative

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prototype approach

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you decide whether an item belongs in this category by comparing it to a prototype

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prototypicality

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the degree to which an item is representative of their category

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graded structure

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begins with the most representative or protypical members and then continue to the non prototypical members

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typicality effect

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people judge protypes as members of a category faster than non prototypes

44
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semantic priming effect

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people respond faster to an item if it was preceded by an item with similar meaning

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family resemblance

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no single attricute is shared by all examples of a concept, however each example has at least one attribute in common with some other example of the concept

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superordinate -level categories

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higher level or more general categories: furniture, animal, tool

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basic level categories

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moderately specific: chair, dog, screwdriver

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subordinate level categories

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lower level and more specific: desk chait, collie, phillips screwdriver

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exemplar approach

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we first learn information about some specific examples of a concept; we then classify each new stimulus by deciding how closely it resembles all of those specific examples

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exemplar

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instead of comparing to prototype, you compare to the most and least typical of each category

51
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network models

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propose a network-style organization of concepts in memory, with numerous interconnections.

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node

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one unit inside the network

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spreading activation

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When you see or hear the name of a concept, the node representing that concept is activated. The activation expands or spreads from that node to other connected nodes

54
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schema

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generalized, well integrated knowledge about a situation, event or person

55
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heuristic

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schemas are a type of heuristic ( a general rule that is typically accurate)

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schema therapy

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script

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simple, wll strucutres, sequence of events that usually occur in a specified order, associated with highly familiar activity

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boundary extension

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refers to our tendency to remeber having viewed a greater portion of a scene than was actually shown

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abstraction

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memory process that stores the meaning of a message rather than the exact words

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verbatim memory

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word for word recall

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false alarm

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when people remember an item that was not originally presented

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constructive model of memory

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people integrate info from individual sentence in order to construct larger ideas

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pragmatic view of memory

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people pay attention to the aspect of a message that is most relevant to thier current goals

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memory integration

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our background knowledge encourages us to take in new information in a schema consistent fashion

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gender sterotypes

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beleieds and opinions that we associate with females and males

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implicit association test

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based on the principles that people can mentally paur two related words together much more easily than they can pain two unrelated words

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thinking

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going beyond the info you were given so that you can reach a goal

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problem solving

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refers to the processes necesary to a reach a goal, where the solution is not immediately obvious

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intial state

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describes the situation at the beginning of a problem

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goal state

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what you are working toward in a problem

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obstacles

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things that stop you from going from your initial state to your goal state

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understanding

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when you have constructed a well organized mental representation of the problem based on both the info provided in the problem and your own previous experience

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problem representation

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refers to the way you translate the elements of the problem into a different format

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matrix

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a grid consisting of rows and columns

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algorithm

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a method that will always produce a solution to the problem, although the process can sometimes be inefficient

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exhaustive search

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you try out all possible answers using a specified system

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analogy approach

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emplot a solution to a similar earlier problem to help you solve a new problem

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problem isomorphs

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refers to a set of froms taht have the same underlying structs and solutions, but different specific details

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surface features

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specific objects and terms used in the question

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structural features

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the underlying core that they must understand in order to solve the problem correctly

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means-end heuristic

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identify the ends, then figure about the means you need to meet the ends

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hill climbing heuristic

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you consistently choose the atlerative that seems to lead most directly to yours goals - not always accurate

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expertise

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when you have consistently exceptional skill and performance on respresentative tasks for a particular area

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mental set

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you keep trying the same solution you used in previous problems

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fixed mindset

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you believe you posses a certain amount of intellegence and other skills and that no amount of effort can help you perform better

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growth mindset

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you can cultivate your intelligence and other skills

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functional fixedness

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we tend to assign stable functions to an object

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stereotype threat

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if you belong ot a group that is hampered by a negatie stereotype and you think about your membership in taht group, your performance may suffer

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insight problem

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the problem initially seems impossible to solve, but then an alternative approach suddenly pops into your head

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noninsight problem

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you solve the problem gradually, bu using your memory and reasoning skills

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