Topic 7 quiz Flashcards
Confirmation bias
a tendency to
search for information that supports
our preconceptions and to ignore or
distort contradictory evidence.
retroactive interference
interference the
disruptive effect of new learning on
the recall of old information.
selective attention
the focusing
of conscious awareness on a
particular stimulus.
mnemonic device
association to better retrieve and recall info
retrieval
the process of getting info out of memory storage. CUE
availability heuristic
estimating
the likelihood of events based on
their availability in memory; if
instances come readily to mind
(perhaps because of their vividness),
we presume such events are
common.
serial position effect
remembering first and last items in a list
state dependent memory
memory retrieval based on one’s state
iconic memory
momentary
sensory memory of visual stimuli;
a photographic or picture-image
memory lasting no more than a few
tenths of a second.
anterograde amnesia
inability to create new memories
episodic memory
memory of past personal experiences that occurred during a specific date or time
morphemes
in a language, the
smallest unit that carries meaning;
may be a word or a part of a word
(such as a prefix).
recall
a measure of memory in
which the person must retrieve
information learned earlier, as on
a fill-in-the-blank test. NO CUE
functional fixedness
cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used
sensory memory
the immediate,
very brief recording of sensory
information in the memory system.
