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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
Reinforcing or punishing a specific behavior
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Positive reinforcement
You study a lot, and get an A++
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Positive punishment
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
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
Taking away a child bongs for smoking weed. Taking toy away for hurting sister.
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Rehearsal
Doing the sea e trick over and over and getting better and better. Cranking FATTTT 90's
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Mnemonics
A strategy to remember something, like saying "CRANKing FATTT 90's" and talking about weed
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Metamemory
Knowledge about one's self
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Metacognition
Thinking about thinking
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Self monitoring
How well am I doing? How well do I understand this unit?
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Self regulation
How to improve if I'm not doing well
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Maintenance rehearsal
Low level, repetitive recycling
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Elaborative rehearsal
More complex rehearsal that uses the meaning of the info to store/remember it
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Recollection
The actual remembering of information
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Familiarity
The general sense of having experienced information before
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Self reference effect
Memory is better for info you relate to yourself in some way
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Generation effect
Info you generate/create is better remembered
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Enactment effect
Improved memory for participants performed tasks
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Survival processing
Better memory for items when you think about their survival rate
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Visual imagery
Mental picturing of a stimulus that affects later recall or recognition
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Context and memory
Chewing the same gum while studying then testing
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State encoding learning
More likely to remember things when physiological state at retrieval matches state at encoding
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Henry Malaison
Surgery to treat epilepsy, taught us how the hippocampus affects memory (Anterograde amnesia)
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Anterograde amnesia
Can't create memory, remembers past memory
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Hippocampus in memory
Memory creation not memory storage
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Source monitoring
Ability to accurately remember the source of a memory
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Cryptoamnesia
Accidental plagiarism that occurs due to forgetting of the source of information
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Tip of the tongue states
a feeling of imminent retrieval, when partial information is accessible
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Memory impairment
an alteration in an episodic memory due to some later event
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Source misattribution
inability to accurately remember the source of a memory
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Misinformation acceptance
when misinformation later gets incorporated into memory
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Reconsolidating
when memories are retrieved, they are in a plastic, malleable state; vulnerable to intrusions and changes
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Linguistics
The study of language
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Components of language
Speech, reading, writing
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Syntax
Arrangement of words that produces a grammatical correct sentence
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Polysemy
Some words have the same meaning
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Aphasia
The disruption of langue gas caused by a brain related disorder
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Wernicke’s aphasia
Severe difficulties in comprehending language speech production is often non-sensical
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Brocas aphasia
Severe difficulties in producing speech
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Left hemisphere for speech
Processing of the most basic, literal speech
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Right hemisphere
Top down processing of incoming speech and non literal information

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