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Unit 5 - People Flashcards

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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forgetting curve - you forget 75% of what you learn in one day without rehearsal/relearning (328)

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Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin

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original three-stage memory processing model

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Alan Baddeley

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added “working memory” to three-stage memory model

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George Sperling

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experiment that showed iconic memory (9 letter activity done in class)

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George Miller

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proposed that people can store 7 pieces of info in short term memory at once

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Eric Kandel

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proved long-term potentiation (LPT) by observing neurons of sea slugs

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Elizabeth Loftus

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proved the presence of reconsolidation and the misinformation effect in eyewitnesses
(car crash video in class)

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Robert Sternberg (5) (3)

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5 components of creativity: expertise, imaginative thinking skills, venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, creative environment
3 intelligences: analytical (academic), creative, practical (everyday tasks)

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Wolfgang Köhler

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discovered that humans are not the only ones with insight

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Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman

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determined even smart people make dumb decisions because of representativeness and availability heuristics

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Steven Pinker

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“language is the jewel in the crown of cognition”
believes biology affects gender differences in life priorities

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Noam Chomsky

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universal grammar - built in predisposition for language

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Paul Broca

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found broca’s area

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Carl Wernicke

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discovered wernicke’s area

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Benjamin Lee Whorf

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linguistic determinism

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Charles Spearman

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general intelligence (g)
also factor analysis

17
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Howard Gardner (8 & 1)

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8 intelligences: naturalist, linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal
potential 9th: existential

18
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Francis Galton

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Darwin’s cousin
believed that intellect was hereditary
eugenics

19
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Alfred Binet

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created intelligence test in france to help schoolchildren
developed the concept of mental age

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Lewis Terman

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developed Stanford-Binet test for u.s.
Terman gifted study

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David Wechsler

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wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)

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Carol Dwek

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growth mindset - intelligence levels can be changed
ability + opportunity + motivation = success

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L. L. Thurstone (7)

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factor analysis
identified seven clusters of primary mental capabilities: word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical ability, inductive reasoning, and memory

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