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What is cognitive Psychology

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The study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.

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How do we study the mind

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By looking at response time, accuracy, heart rate, eye movements, pupil size. EEG and fMRI’s

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Posners spatial cueing task

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Time it takes to reorientate our attention with valid and non valid cues. The arrows

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Automacity

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the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. (the font and color thing in class)

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Stroop

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Reading is automatic(literally the font and color task)

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Cue

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The Arrow

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Valid cue

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Arrow gives the correct info

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Invalid cue

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Arrow gives the wrong info

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input attention

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the processes that involve getting information from the environment into our cognitive systems, tend to be reflexive, quick, and automatic.

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Orientating reflex

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Looking at noise or other social cues

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Controlled attention

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Deliberately giving attention to something

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Shadowing task

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Two people talk into one ear

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Selection of attention

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What does the Brian listen to and ignore. Ignore one ear, listen to the other

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Early selection

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Who we filter info based on early phases of perception

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Working memory

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Where compression occurs

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Short term memory

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Temp storage of info

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Long term memory

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Mental Workbench, conscious processing takes place

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George millers magic number

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7 +-2

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High load task

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Uses most of a person mental resources (Counting backwards by 7)(doing hard math)

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Low load task

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Uses few resources (Watching a funny video)

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Long term memory

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Non declarative, declarative

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Non declarative

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Procedural memory (walking to class) (the process of retrieving information necessary to perform learned skills)

Implicit memory (Priming, seeing a coke ad then wanting one

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Declarative

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Episodic Memory (Memory for events) Semantic memory (Facts, math and stuff)

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Classical conditioning

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S$ and the vape/snapping

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Operant conditioning

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Reinforcing or punishing a specific behavior

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Positive reinforcement

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You study a lot, and get an A++

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Positive punishment

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If Granda hurts you for stealing her bingus, the behavior of stealing is punished by the unpleasant beating. TIme out bitch

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Negative reinforcement

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Your trash stinks so you remove it, by taking the trash out, the behavior of taking the trash out is reinforced by the removal of the unpleasant stimulus

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Negative punishment

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Taking away a child bongs for smoking weed. Taking toy away for hurting sister.

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Rehearsal

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Doing the sea e trick over and over and getting better and better. Cranking FATTTT 90’s

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Mnemonics

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A strategy to remember something, like saying “CRANKing FATTT 90’s” and talking about weed

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Metamemory

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Knowledge about one’s self

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Metacognition

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Thinking about thinking

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Self monitoring

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How well am I doing? How well do I understand this unit?

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Self regulation

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How to improve if I’m not doing well

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Maintenance rehearsal

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Low level, repetitive recycling

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Elaborative rehearsal

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More complex rehearsal that uses the meaning of the info to store/remember it

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Recollection

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The actual remembering of information

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Familiarity

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The general sense of having experienced information before

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Self reference effect

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Memory is better for info you relate to yourself in some way

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Generation effect

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Info you generate/create is better remembered

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Enactment effect

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Improved memory for participants performed tasks

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Survival processing

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Better memory for items when you think about their survival rate

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Visual imagery

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Mental picturing of a stimulus that affects later recall or recognition

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Context and memory

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Chewing the same gum while studying then testing

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State encoding learning

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More likely to remember things when physiological state at retrieval matches state at encoding

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Henry Malaison

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Surgery to treat epilepsy, taught us how the hippocampus affects memory (Anterograde amnesia)

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Anterograde amnesia

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Can’t create memory, remembers past memory

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Hippocampus in memory

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Memory creation not memory storage

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Source monitoring

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Ability to accurately remember the source of a memory

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Cryptoamnesia

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Accidental plagiarism that occurs due to forgetting of the source of information

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Tip of the tongue states

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a feeling of imminent retrieval, when partial information is accessible

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Memory impairment

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an alteration in an episodic memory due to some later event

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Source misattribution

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inability to accurately remember the source of a memory

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Misinformation acceptance

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when misinformation later gets incorporated into memory

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Reconsolidating

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when memories are retrieved, they are in a plastic, malleable state; vulnerable to intrusions and changes

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Linguistics

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The study of language

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Components of language

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Speech, reading, writing

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Syntax

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Arrangement of words that produces a grammatical correct sentence

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Polysemy

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Some words have the same meaning

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Aphasia

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The disruption of langue gas caused by a brain related disorder

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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Severe difficulties in comprehending language speech production is often non-sensical

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Brocas aphasia

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Severe difficulties in producing speech

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Left hemisphere for speech

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Processing of the most basic, literal speech

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Right hemisphere

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Top down processing of incoming speech and non literal information

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