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Exam 3 Flashcards

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Encoding

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the process of storing information into long-term memory during the learning experience

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What factors make for better encoding?

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depth of processing

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What factors do not make for better encoding?

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repetition, intention to remember

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Levels of processing

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structural, phonemic, category; idea is that the deeper the stimulus is processed, the better it is encoded

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Survival

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surprise memory test showed that carrying out a “survival” task while reading the words resulted in better memory than other elaborative encoding procedures
- context: participants imagining that they are stranded are presented with a list of words; their task was to rate each word based on how relevant it would be for finding supplies of food and water and providing protection from predators

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Self-reference

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memory is better if you are asked to relate a word to yourself (i.e., self-reference - whether the word describes yourself - had higher recognition of the words than those in the common conditions who were asked to indicate whether the word was commonly used)

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Understanding

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Increased understanding leads to better encoding (laundry example with context via picture versus no context given before the paragraph)

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Generation

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generating material yourself, rather than passively receiving it, enhances learning and retention of information

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Summary for encoding

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  • increased elaboration leads to better encoding
  • richer network of semantic connections during encoding
  • more ways to retrieve information during recall
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Levels of processing in testing

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testing provides a way of elaborating the material rather than just learning through studying only

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Levels of processing summary

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  • increased elaboration leads to better encoding
  • richer network of semantic connections during encoding
  • more ways to retrieve information during recall
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Storage/consolidation

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the strengthening of information in long-term memory after the learning experience

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Standard model of memory

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initial experience –> consolidation –> fully encoded

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Hippocampal replay during sleep

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Interference with hippocampal replay

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Sleep-driven consolidation in humans

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Consolidation and dreaming

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Retrieval

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transferring information from LTM into working memory

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Retrieval cues

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a word or other stimulus that helps a person remember information stored in memory

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Tip of the tongue effect

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Cued recall

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participant is presented with retrieval cues to aid in recall of the previously experienced stimuli

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Uncued recall

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a participant is asked to recall stimuli without any retrieval cues

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Retrieval cues conclusions

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retrieval cues are significantly more effective when they are created by the person whose memory is being tested

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Encoding specificity

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matching context between encoding and retrieval assists performance

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Memories as associations

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Godden & Baddeley diving study

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results indicated that the best recall occurred when encoding and retrieval occurred in the same location (i.e., both on land or both underwater)

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Grant et al. noise study

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participants performed better on a short-answer test when the testing condition matched the study condition (i.e., study in quiet and test in quiet)

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Eich & Metcalf mood study

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performed better at remembering the words from two days earlier when their mood at retrieval matched their mood during the encoding (state-dependent learning)

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Goodwin et al. alcohol study

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Encoding specificity conclusions

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Transfer appropriate processing

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Morris et al. study

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participants who focused on rhyming during encoding remembered more words in the rhyming test than participants who had focused on meaning; thus, the participants who had focused on the word’s sound during the first part of the experiment did better when the test involved focusing on sound (transfer appropriate processing)
- showed that deeper processing at encoding does not always result in better retrieval

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Transfer appropriate processing vs. levels of processing

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transfer appropriate processing: better performance when the type of processing matches in encoding and retrieval
levels of processing: deeper processing at encoding leads to better retrieval

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Interference

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Proactive interference

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when previously learned information interferes with learning new information

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Retroactive interference

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when new information interferes with retrieving previously learned information

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Evidence for proactive interference

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  • studied 10 pairs of adjectives –> came back, recalled the old test, and studied a new one –> repeated this process twice more
  • with no previous list to remember, recall is higher, but with increasing number of things to remember, recall decreases
  • possibly due to competition during retrieval
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Evidence for retroactive interference

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  • participant studied a list of pairs in two sessions (experimental condition, the AB and AD list shared A part; control condition, no overlap) –> in test phase, they were asked what they remember from the first session
  • experimental condition showed much worse performance –> retrieval competition (have to resolve some conflict between what you learned in session one versus session two)
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Retrieval induced forgetting

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  • memories are constantly in swing
  • elements can be suppressed and activated
  • retrieval biases towards recent goals
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Constructive memory

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  • memories are not a carbon copy of the past
  • prone to revision and error
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Retrieval conclusions

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  • the effectiveness of retrieval depends on what you do with information
  • retrieval is error prone (interference)
  • retrieval can change memories (retrieval induced forgetting)
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Anderson paradigm

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  • retrieval induced forgetting
  • weakened association between category and unrehearsed item
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Inhibition vs. response blocking

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  • blocking idea is that practiced words occupy the ‘response channel’
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Neuroimaging study

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Autobiographical memory

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memory for specific experiences from our life
- they are multidimensional, meaning: the memory includes several sensory modalities; the memory takes place in 3D space; there are thoughts and emotions associated with the memory

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Everyday memory

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Episodic components of autobiographical memories

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Semantic components of autobiographical memories

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Multidimensionality of autobiographical memories

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  • the memory includes several sensory modalities
  • the memory takes place in 3D space
  • there are thoughts and emotions associated with the memory
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Emotions associated with event

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Distinctiveness associated with event

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Reminiscence bump

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enhanced memory for adolescence and young adulthood found in people over 40

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Self-image hypothesis

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proposes that memory is enhanced for events that occur as a person’s self-image or life identity is being formed

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Cognitive hypothesis

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proposes that periods of rapid change that are followed by stability cause stronger encoding of memories

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Cultural life script hypothesis

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distinguishes between a person’s life story, which is all of the events that have occurred in a person’s life, and a cultural life script, which is the culturally expected events that occur at a particular time in the life span

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Emotion and memory

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  • more correct recognitions were given for emotional images than neutral images
  • activation for emotional recognitions was shown not just in the hippocampus, but also the amygdala
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Effect of amygdala

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  • impaired amygdala group showed no memory benefit for the scary picture
  • evidence that amygdala activation is important in consolidating emotional memories
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Flashbulb memories

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refers to a person’s memory for the circumstances surrounding shocking, highly charged events
- refers to memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an event, not memory for the event itself
- typically occur under highly emotional circumstances
- associated with overt narrative rehearsal
- person typically reports many vivid details long after the event occurred

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Constructive nature of memory

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what people report as memories are constructed based on what actually happened plus additional factors, such as the person’s knowledge, experiences, and expectations
- remembering something may distort or change the memory based on new information

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Overt rehearsal

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offers opportunity to include new information with the event, thus leading to decreased accuracy for flashbulb memories
- expectations and outside knowledge about the event may distort or change how the event is remembered

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DRM paradigm

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a false memory induction
- the constructive nature of memory can lead to false memory
- example from class: people remember “window” because it was semantically related to the other words

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Source monitoring errors

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the process of determining the origins of our memories, knowledge, or beliefs; so an error is misidentifying the source of a memory

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Source monitoring errors

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occur when you retrieve information but misremember where the information came from

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Jacoby et al. (1989) study

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participants tested after a delay were more likely to identify the old non famous names as being famous
- the name is familiar, but the source is no longer attached

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Fake news

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  • source monitoring is harder when there is so much information and so many sources
  • the information has become divorced from the source - no longer discredit the bad source of the info
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Previous knowledge

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previous knowledge affects memory via scripts and schemas

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Scripts

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our conception of the sequence of actions that usually occurs during a particular experience

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Schemas

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a person’s knowledge about some aspect of the environment

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Eyewitness

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eyewitness memory for autobiographical events is a major basis for evidence in the criminal justice system

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Loftus and Palmer (1974) study

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  • participants watched a video of a car crash and asked to report how fast the cars were going
  • the key manipulation is they were asked how fast the cars were going when they [insert verb here] each other
  • participants in the “smashed” condition estimated higher speeds and more likely to report broken glass –> misleading post-event information: autobiographical memory was reshaped by the way the question was framed
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Lindsay (1970) study

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regarding flaws in eyewitness testimony:
- misleading post-event information is more likely to affect memory when it is closer to the actual memory
- source monitoring error

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Reasons for poor eyewitness

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  • perception and attention
  • familiarity
  • suggestion
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Perception and attention in eyewitness

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  • people can’t remember an event well if the event is not perceived
  • weapons focus: when witnessing a crime that includes a weapon, participants are less likely to remember information about the perpetrator
  • effect increases if the weapon is used
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Familiarity in eyewitness

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  • participants misidentified an innocent bystander as the perpetrator because he was familiar
  • source monitoring?
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Suggestion in eyewitness

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Improvements for eyewitness testimony

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  • inform the witness that the perpetrator may not be in the lineup
  • use fillers that look similar to the actual suspect
  • use a blind lineup administrator who does not know who is the suspect
  • have witnesses rate their confidence immediately
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Everyday memory conclusions

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  • distinctiveness and emotion can make autobiographical memories more memorable
  • autobiographical memory goes awry in predictable, systematic ways –> we construct and reconstruct the memories we retrieve; the source and the information can become divorced; we fill in the gaps with what we expect from scripts and schemas
  • memory faults are typically harmless, but important to know memory is limited in situations where precise accuracy matters
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Artificial concepts

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  • can be defined in terms of a rule
  • difference between necessary and sufficient conditions
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Learning artificial concepts

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learn artificial categories via two theories: incremental learning theory and hypothesis testing

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Learning theory

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  • you incrementally get better at classification
  • for every stimulus and category you increase association when correct, and decrease association when incorrect
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Hypothesis testing

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basic idea: you will always be no better than guessing, until you hit the right hypothesis
- pick a random hypothesis, and test it
- stick with it, until you are correct: if incorrect, go back to 1

specifics:
- only works for a narrow class of concepts
- more recent, complex, models can handle more complex data
- lesson: for artificial concepts, people use hypothesis testing

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Artificial categories summary

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  • features well-defined
  • no within-category variability
  • categorization follows a rule
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Posner & Keele experiment

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Natural categories

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  • hard to enumerate all features
  • some examples are better category members
  • family resemblance (definitions do not include all members, allows for variation within category)
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Typicality

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variations within categories

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Three different ways to determine typicality

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Prototype view

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membership in a category is determined by comparing the object to a prototype that represents the category

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Evidence of prototype view

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Issues with prototype view

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  • people are sometimes sensitive to the specifics of particular instances
  • people are sensitive to the variability of instances
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Exemplar view

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  • each exemplar is stored or forgotten
  • when a new case comes in, compare it to the stored examples
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Concepts in networks

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  • computational models of distributed processing
  • neural and behavioral evidence
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Connectionist networks

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an approach to creating computer models for representing cognitive processes

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Rogers & McClelland network model of semantic organization

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Learning in the R&M model

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Similarity measures and concept space

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Embodied cognition

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states that our knowledge of concepts is based on reactivation of sensory and motor processes that occur when we interact with the object

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Hauk et al. neuroimaging study

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Tucker and Ellis behavioral study

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Podric et al. TMS study

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Problem solving

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Trial-and-error

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Thorndike

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Animal studies

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Law of effect

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Limitations of trial and error

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Insight

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any sudden comprehension, realization, or problem solution that involves a reorganization of a person’s mental representation of a stimulus, situation, or event to yield an interpretation that was not initially obvious

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Sudden solution

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Restructuring

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Suppressing irrelevant information

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Kounios neuroimaging study

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Functional fixedness

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focuses on familiar functions or uses of an object

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Algorithms

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Problem space theory

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Tower of Hanoi

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Full planning

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Heuristics

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Repeat state avoidance

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Difference reduction

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Means end analysis

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Interim conclusions

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Means end analysis in Tower of Hanoi

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reduce the difference between the initial and goal states, which is achieved by creating subgoals

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Subgoal pseudoreward MRI study

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Analogies

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Structure mapping

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Atom discovery example

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Alignment of differences

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Analogy use in the lab

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Structural vs. surface similarity

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Water jug study

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Expertise

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Creativity

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Smith et al. drawing study

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Beaty et al. MRI study on suppressing primed concepts

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Finke’s preinventive forms

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136
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The “generation effect” refers to…

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the memory benefit of generating information rather than simply observing it

137
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Elaborative rehearsal of a word will least likely be accomplished by…

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repeating it over and over again

138
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According to the levels of processing theory, memory durability depends on the depth at which information is…

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encoded

139
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The principle of _______ states that we encode information along with its context

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encoding specificity

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Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago, can be stimulated by locations, songs, and smells, highlight the importance of _______ in LTM

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retrieval cues

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