Unit 2 Flashcards
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Cognition
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All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
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metacognition
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Keeping track of and evaluating our mental processes
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concepts
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mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
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prototype
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Mental image or best example of a category
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How are prototypes useful?
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They make sorting items into categories easier as matching the new item to a prototype is quick and easy
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schemas
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Concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
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Assimilation
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Interpreting new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
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Accommodate
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Adapting current schemas to incorporate new information
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creativity
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Ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
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Convergent thinking
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Narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
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divergent thinking
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expanding the number of possible problem solutions, creative thinking that diverges in different directions
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What are the 5 components of creativity
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Expertise
imaginative thinking skills
venturesome personality
intrinsic motivation
creative environment
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Selective attention
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Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus
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Cocktail party effect
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Ability to attend to only 1 voice within a sea of many others as you chat with a party guest
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Inattentional blindness
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Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
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Change blindness
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Failing to notice changes in the environment, a form of inattentional blindness
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perceptual set
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Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
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What can expectations give us and what does it effect?
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It may give us a perceptual set that would effect top-down and our senses
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What are formed through experiences?
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Concepts/schemas that organize and interpret unfamiliar information
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What can effect interpretations?
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Immediate context, motivations, and emotions
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gesalt
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an organized whole, emphasizes the tendency to integrate pieces into meaningful wholes
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figure-ground
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the organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings
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What are some basic features of a scene that are processed instantly and automatically?
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color, movement, light-dark contrast
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how does the mind bring order and form to other stimuli?
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by grouping
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grouping
tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups
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depth perception
ability to see objects in 3 dimensions although the images that strike the retina are 3 dimensional, also allows us to judge distance
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Binocular cues
A depth cue that depends on the use of 2 eyes
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convergence
A cue to nearby object's distance enabled by the brain combining retinal images
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retinal disparity
Binocular cue for perceiving depth. Compares the different retinal images from the 2 eyes, where it computers distance from disparity
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if an object is close to the eyes, is the disparity greater or smaller?
greater
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if an object is far from the eyes, is the disparity greater or smaller?
smaller
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Monocular cues
Dept cue that is available to either eye alone
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Relative clarity
Objects that are further away appear hazy or blurry. Closer objects are sharper and clearer
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Relative size
2 objects of relative size, the one that seems smaller are farther away
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texture gradient
Further away objects are smoother, closer objects have more texture
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linear perspective
Parallel lines appear to meet in the distance. A sharper angle of convergence means a greater perceived distance
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interposition
If one objects partially blocks our view of another, it is perceived as closer
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How does the brain normally compute motion?
It computes motion on the assumption that shrinking objects are retreating and enlarging objects are approaching
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If a small object and a large object move at the same speed, which do we perceive as faster?
The smaller object
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Stroboscopic movement
Illusion of continuous movement experienced when viewing a rapid series of slightly varying still images
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Phi phenomenon
Illusion of movement created when 2 or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession
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Autokinetic effect
Illusionary movement of a still spot of light in a dark room
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perceptual constancy
Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change
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is perceptual constancy a top-down or bottom-up process?
top-down
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Color constancy
Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object
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Brightness constancy
Perceiving an object as having constant brightness despite illumination variation
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Shape constancy
Perceiving the form of familiar objects as constant while the retina receives changing images of them
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How does shape constancy work in the brain
The visual cortex neurons learning to associate different views of an object
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Size constancy
Perceiving an object as having unchanging size despite our visual distance from it changing
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Critical period
A period when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences is required
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Perceptual adaptation
Ability to adjust to changed sensory input, including an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field
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What are the 2 arguments about human perception?
Kant - knowledge comes from inborn ways of organizing sensory experiences
Lock - experiences shape how we perceive the world
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executive functions
Cognitive skills that work together, enabling organization, planning, and goal-oriented behavior
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algorithms
Methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
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heuristics
Simple thinking strategy that allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently
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what are 2 differences between algorithms and heuristics?
- heuristics is speeder
- heuristics is more error prone than algorithms
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insight
Sudden realization of a problem's solution, contrasts with strategy-based solutions
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What part of the brain does insight activate?
Right above the ear in the right temporal lobe
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Confirmation bias
Tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
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Mental set
Tendency to approach a problem in 1 particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past
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intuition
Effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought
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Representative heuristic
Judging the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to represent particular prototypes, might lead to us ignoring other relevant information
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Availability heuristic
Judging the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory, if instances come readily to the mind, those events are perceived as common
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overconfidence
Tendency to be more confident than correct, overestimating the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements
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Planning fallacy
Overestimating future leisure time and income
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sunk-cost fallacy
Sticking to an original plan because we have invested our time, instead of switching to a new, more efficient approach
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Belief perserverance
Persistence of one's initial conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
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Motivated reasoning
Using their conclusions to assess the evidence instead of objectively reviewing the evidence
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framing
The way an issue is posed, can significantly effect decisions and judgements
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nudge
Framing choices in a way that encourages people to make decisions
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Is intuition adaptive?
yes
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What is intuition made from?
experience
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memory
Persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
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What are the 3 retention measures?
Recall, recognition, relearning
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Recall
Retrieving information that isn't not in your conscious awareness but that was learned at an earlier time
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Recognition
Identifying items previously learned
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Relearning
learning something more quickly when it is learned a second or at a later time
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What is Hermann Ebbinghaus known for?
Ebbinghaus retention curve
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What does the Ebbinghaus retention curve portray?
Shows that additional rehearsal/overlearning of verbal information increases retention
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What are the parts of the information-processing model?
Encode, store, retrieve
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encode
process of getting information into the memory system
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store
Process of retaining encoded information over time
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retrieve
Process of getting information out of memory storage
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What is an example of neurplasticity in memory?
When you learn something new, the brain's neural connections change
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what are the 3 parts of the multi-store model?
Sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memroy
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Sensory memory
Immediate, brief recording of sensory information in the memory system
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Short-term memory
Briefly activated memory of a few items that is alter stored or forgottten
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Long-term memory
Relatively permanent and limitless archive of the memory system
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Working memory
Conscious active processing of both sensory information and information retrieved from long-term memory
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What does working memory help prolong and through what?
Prolongs memory storage through maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal
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Central executive
Memory component that coordinates the activities of the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad
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phonological loop
Memory component that briefly holds auditory information
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visuospatial sketchpad
Memory component that briefly holds information about objects' appearance and location in space
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long-term potentiation
Increase in a nerve cell's firing potential after brief rapid stimulation, a neural basis for learning and memory
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explicit memories
retention of facts and experiences that we can consciously know and "declare"
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effortful processing
encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
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automatic processing
unconscious encoding of incidental information or familiar/well-learned information
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implicit memories
retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection
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procedural memory example
how to ride a bike
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classical conditioning
type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli and anticipate events
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what are 3 things that are automatically processed without conscious effort?
space, time, frequency
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iconic memory
a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli, a picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second
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echoic memory
a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli
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How many pieces of information can we hold in short-term memory. Who proposed this?
7+-2
George Miller
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what age group does task-switching not effect?
none, task switching/multitasking for all age groups is worse than focusing on 1 task at a time
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chunking
organizing items into familiar, manageable units that often occurs automatically
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mnemonics
memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
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what occurs when people process information in an area they have developed expertise in?
they form hierarchies, they are composed of broad categories that divide into subcategories (flowchart)
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spacing effect
tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice
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What are the results of massed practice?
speedy short-term learning and more confidence (false or not)
Forgetting the material quicker
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Effects of distributed practice
better long-term recal
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testing effect
enhanced memory after retrieving
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Shallow processing
encoding on a basic level
ex. based on structure or appearance of words (structural encoding, phonemic encoding)
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Deep Processing
encoding semantically, based on the meaning of words and yields the best retention
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What type of information do people excel at remembering?
personally relevant information
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self-reference effect
tendency to remember self-relevant information
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semantic
Explicit memory of facts and general knowledge
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episodic
Explicit memory of personally experienced events
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What are the 2 conscious memory systems?
Semantic and episodic
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How do our schemas effect memory processing?
New explicit memories are more readily stored if they fit within existing schemas than if they don't
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What are the brain regions that process and store new explicit memories and episodes?
Frontal lobes and hippocampus
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What part of the brain is activated when you remember a memory
Prefrontal cortex for working memory processing
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What type of memory does the left frontal lobe hold?
Calculative memories, semantic
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What type of memory does the right frontal lobe hold
Visual scenes, episodic
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Hippocampus function in memory
Processes explicit memories of facts and events for storage
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What happens to the hippocampus's ability to process memories as we age?
It grows, enabling people to be able to construct more detailed memories
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What occurs if there is damage to the hippocampus?
The formation of explicit memories are disrupted and the recall of them degrade
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What does the rear end of the hippocampus do?
Processes spatial memory
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Are memories stored permanently in the hippocampus?
no
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How does the hippocampus act as a loading dock?
It is the region where the brain registers and temporarily holds the elements of an episode, then it moves it to the cortex
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memory cosolidation
Neural storage of a long-term memory, hippocampus to cortex
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What supports memory consolidation?
sleep
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Cerebellum function in memory
Forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning
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What happens to memory if the cerebellum is damaged?
People are unable to develop certain conditioned reflexes, like associating smoke with fire
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Basal ganglia function in memory
Facilitates the formation of our procedural memories for skills
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How do strong emotions contribute to memory?
Strong emotions make more glucose energy available to fuel brain activity, improving memory
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What provokes the amygdala to make a memory trace?
stress
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memory trast
lasting physical change as the memory forms
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Amygdala function in memory
Improves memory in emotionally-charged situations
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How do emotional events effect attention?
Attention and recall is focused on high priority information while irrelevant details are reduced
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Flashbulb memories
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
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recall
Ability to produce previously learned informationre
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recognition
ability to identify previously learned items
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Retrospective memory
The past
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prospective memory
Intended future actions
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Priming (mem)
Activation of certain associations predisposing one's perception, memory, or response
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Is priming implicit or explicit
Implicit because it occurs without conscious awareness
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Encoding specificity principle
Cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping recall
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Context dependent meory
Memory is effected by the cues we have associated with that context
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State dependent memory
What is learned in one state of being is more easily recalled when we are in that state again
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mood congruent memories
Tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood
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Serial position effect
Tendency to recall the last items in a list and the first items in a list after a delay
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Receny effect
Tendency to recall the last items in a list the best
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Primacy effect
Tendency to recall the first items in a list after a delay
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Interleaving
Retrieval practice strategy that involves mixing the study of different topics
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Anterograde amnesia
Inability to form new memories
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Retrograde amnesia
Inability to remember information from one's past
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What occurs when people with anterograde amnesia learn something?
Their automatic processing was still active and working so they were able to learn a skill but unable to remember consciously learning it
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Encoding failure
The inability to encode working/short term memory ino long-term memory
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displacement
Information that isn't encoded in long term storage being forgotten as new information enters short-term memory
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Storage decay
Gradual fading of information stored in the brain over time due to the passage of time or lack of use
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Retrieval failure
Failure to retrieve memories from long term memory
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Proactive interference
Forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information
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retroactive interference
Backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information
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Why is the information presented in the hour before sleep more remembered?
There are less interfering events between the information presented and sleep
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Repression
Psychoanalytic theory that a basic defense mechanism blocks memories due to undesirable memories
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reconsolidation
Process in which previously stored memories are potentially altered before being stored again
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Misinformation effect
Occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading informaion
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Source amnesia
Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined
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Deja vu
Sense that an event has been experienced before due to cues from the current situation unconsciously triggering retrieval of an earlier experience
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Imagination Inflation
Memory phenomenon in which vividly imagining an event markedly increases confidence that the event actually occurred
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Infantile Amnesia
Inability to remember events from early childhood
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Elaborative rehearsal
Linking of new information to material that is already known
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Maintenance Rehearsal
repeating stimuli in their original form to retain them in short term memory
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Method of Loci
Mnemonic device that involves imagining placing items you want to remember along a route you know well, or in specific locations in somewhere familiar
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Hierachies
systems in which concepts are arranged from more general to more specific classes
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Structural encoding
Shallow processing that emphasizes the physical structure of the stimulus
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Phonemic encoding
Encoding of sounds
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Procedural memory
Implicit memory that involves motor skills and behavioral habits
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Apparent movement
Perception that a stationary object is moving
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Gambler's Fallacy
fallacy of thinking that future probabilities are altered by past events
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Sunk Cost Fallacy
making decisions about a current situation based on what one has previously invested in the situation
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Autobiographical memory
Special form of episodic memory consisting of a person's recollection of his or her life experiences
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intelligence
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
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Who thought of the theory of general intelligence
Charles Spearman
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General intelligence
A factor that underlies all mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test
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Factor analysis
A statistical procedure that identities clusters of related items used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlies a perron's total score
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Who was Spearman's critic
L.L Thurstone
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What was LL Thurstone's contribution to the theory of general intelligence
He identified 7 clusters of primary mental abilities and tested people's intelligence based on them. His experiment ultimately proved the existence of a g factor
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What did Cattel and Horn contribute to the theory of general intelligence
Fluid intelligence and crystaliized intelligence
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fluid intelligence
ability to reason quickly and abstractly
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crystallized intelligence
Accumulated knowledge
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Cattel-Horn-Carrol theory
Intelligence is based on a g factor as well as specific abilities, Gf and Gc
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What was behind the theory of multiple inntelligences
Howard Gardner
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What are the 8 independent intelligences
Naturalist
interpersonal
intrapersonal
social-kinesthetic
spatial
musical
logical-mathematical
linguistic
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what is savant syndrome
condition where a person is limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill
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What does Sternberg's triarchic theory propose
3 measured intelligences
Analytical, Creative, and Practical
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grit
Passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long time goals
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How long does it take to become an expert
10 years of consistent deliberate practice
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Who was behind the idea of social intelligence
Edward Thorndike
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emotional intelligence
Ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
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What is perceiving emotions
Recognizing them
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What is understanding emotions
Predicting them and how they might change
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What is managing emotions
knowing how to express them in situations and how to handle others emotions
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What is using emotions
To facilitate adaptive and creative thinking
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Intelligence test
Method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others
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achievement tests
Assesses what has been learned
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aptitude tests
Designed to predict a person's future performance, capacity to learn
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collectivism
Collective welfare of the family, community, and society
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individualism
promoting individual oppurtunity
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What is Francis Galton best known for
Believed intelligence and ability stemmed from genetics
founded the eugenics movement and forced sterilization for those lacking
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When did modern intelligence testing start
Early 20th century in France
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Mental age
Measure of intelligence test, level of performance associated with children of a certain chronological age
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What did Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon assume about child development
All child follow the same intellectual development but some develop more rapidly
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Who was behind mental age
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
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What was Alfred Binet's intent behind developing mental age
To improve children's education
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Stanford-Binet
American revision of Binet's original intelligence test
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How did Lewis Terman modify Binet's test
He adding new items, established new age norms and extended the test from 12 year old's to adults
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Intelligence quotient
(Mental age / chronological age) x 100 = iq
the average performance for an age is 100
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Who developed iq?
William Stern
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How are modern intelligence test governed
IQ now represents the test-taker's performance relative to the average performance to others of the same age
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Did Terman's view align more with Galton or Binet
Galton, believed in eugenics and that ethnic groups were genetically inferior
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Wechsler's Adult Intelligence Scale & the Wechsler's Intelligence Scale for Children
Most widely used intelligence test that contains many subtests
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Who created the WAIS and the WISC
David Wechsler
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What does the WAIS give results on
Intelligence score
verbal comprehension
perceptual reasoning
working memory
processing speed
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What must a psychological test have to be accepted
Psychometric properties of being standardized, reliable, and valid
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psychometric
Scientific study of the measurements of human abilities, attitudes, and traits
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standardization
Defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
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Normal curve
Symmetrical, bell-shaped curve where most scores fall near the mean
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Flynn Effect
Rise in intelligence test performance over time and across cultures
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Who created/noticed the Flynn Effect
James Flynn
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What contributed the most to IQ score growth
Economic growth
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What lead to regional reversals in IQ
Poverty, discrimination, educational inequities
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reliability
Extent to which a test yields consistent results
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How is reliability assessed?
Consistency of:
- 2 halves of the test
- alternative forms of the test
- retesting
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Split-half
Agreement of odd-numbered question scores and even-numbered question scores
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If the correlation between the scores are higher, is the test more or less reliable
More reliable
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validity
Extent to which a test or experiment measures or predicts what it is supposed to
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Content validity
Extent to which a test samples the behaviors that is of interest
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construct validity
How much a test measures a concept or trait
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Predictive validity
Success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict
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How is predictive validity assessed
By computing correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior
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Are general aptitude tests predictive
No, they predict early school grades but weaken in later school years
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Why do general aptitude test scores become less predictive
The range of scores in a school or area are similar, making it harder to determine things
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Do intelligence test scores become more or less consistent with age
More consistent and stable
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Who was the originator of the idea that mental ability decreased with age, was he correct or not
David Wechsler, he was incorrect
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Does intelligence remain stable or unstable as we age
stable
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Do cross sectional studies suggest that intelligence declines or remains stable
decline
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Do longitudinal method studies suggest that intelligence declines or remains stable
stable
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Crystallized intelligence increases with age, True or Flase
True
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Fluid Intelligence decreases with age. True or False
True
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heritability
Portion of variation among individuals in a group that we can attributes to genes
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If a group of students were raised exactly the same, would heritability increase or decrease
Increase since the differences would have to be contributed to genetics
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Is intelligence polygenetic
es
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Do adopted children share mental similarities with their adoptive families
Adopted children tend to share more mental similarities with their biological parents than their adopted parents
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Growth mindset
Focus on learning and growing rather than viewing abilities as fixed
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fixed mindset
view that intelligence, abilities, and talents are unchangeable
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Are boys or girls smarter
Their intelligence score are extremely similar with minor differences
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What are 2 agreed upon facts on group differences
Racial and ethnic groups mostly overlap but differ in intelligence scores
high scoring groups are more likely to obtain high levels to education and income
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Stereotype threat
A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stererotype
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Stereotype lift
Being exposed to situations that create stereotype threat in outgroup members may improve performance
