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Unit 7 Flashcards

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Cognition

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All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Concept

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Mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people

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Prototype

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A mental image or best example of a category

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Creativity

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Ability to produce new & valuable ideas

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Convergent thinking

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Narrowing the problem solutions to determine the best solution

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Divergent thinking

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Expanding the number of possible problem solutions, creative thinking that goes in different directions

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Algorithm

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Methodical, logical, rule that guarantees solving a problem

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Heuristic

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Simple thinking strategy that allows us to make judgements & solve a problem efficiently (speedier, but more error prone than algorithm).

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Insight

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Sudden realization of a problem’s solution

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Confirmation bias

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Tendency to search for info that supports our preconceptions & ignore contradictory evidence

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Fixation

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Inability to see a problem from a new perspective, obstacle to problem-solving

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Mental set

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Tendency to approach a problem in one way, often a way that has worked in the past

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Intuition

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Effortless, immediate, automatic feelings or thought

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Representativeness heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events in terms of how well they match a prototype

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Availability heuristic

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Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory

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Overconfidence

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Tendency to be more confident than correct - we overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs

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Belief perseverance

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Clinging to one’s initial conceptions even after they have been discredited

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Framing

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How something is worded affects decisions and judgements

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Language

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Our spoken, written, or signed words & the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

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Phoneme

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The smallest distinctive sound unit

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Morpheme

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Smallest unit that caries meaning (word or prefix)

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Grammar

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A system of rules that enables us to communicate with & understand others

Noam Chomsky says that language and grammar comes natural

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Babbling stage

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Around 4 months, infants spontaneously utter various sounds

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One-word stage

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Age 1-2, a child speaks mostly in single words

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Two-word stage
Around age 2, a child speaks mostly in two-word statements
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Telegraphic speech
Speech stage where a child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs (“daddy fall over”)
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Linguistic determinism
Whorf’s hypothesis - language controls how we think & interpret the world around us
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Linguistic influence
Our thinking & world view is “relative” to our cultural language
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Aphasia
Impairment of language, usually caused by damage to Broca’s area (speaking) or Wernicke’s area (understanding)
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Broca’s area
Frontal lobe, left hemisphere, controls language & expression
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Wernicke’s area
Left temporal lobe, language comprehension
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Memory
The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of info.
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Recall
When a person has to retrieve previously learned info (fill in the blank)
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Recognition
When a person has to identify previously learned info (multiple choice)
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Relearning
The amount of time saved when learning material again
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Encoding
Getting info into the memory system
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Storage
Retaining info over time
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Retrieval
Getting info out of memory storage
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Parallel processing
Processing many things at once
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Sensory memory
Immediate, brief recording of sensory info into memory system
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Short-term memory
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly before info is stored or forgotten
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Long- term memory
Relatively permanent & limitless storehouse of the memory system (knowledge, skills, experiences)
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Working memory
Newer understanding of short-term memory and active processing of visual & auditory information
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Explicit memory
(Declarative memory) retention of facts & experiences
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Effortful processing
Encoding that requires attention & conscious effort
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Automatic processing
Unconscious encoding of info, doesn’t require effort or attention
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Implicit memory
(Nondeclarative memory) retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations
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Iconic memory
Momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli Recalled in no more than 1/10th of a second
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Echoic memory
Momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli Recalled within 3-4 seconds
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Chunking
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units, often automatic
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Mnemonics
Memory aids (ROYGBIV)
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Spacing effect
Tendency for distributed study to work better than mass study
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Testing effect
Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than rereading info
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Shallow processing
Encoding on a basic level
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Deep processing
Encoding semantically (explanation/definition), best retention
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Semantic memory
Explicit memory of facts and general knowledge
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Episodic memory
Explicit memory of personally experienced events
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Hippocampus
Neural center in limbic system, helps process conscious memories for storage
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Memory consolidation
The neural storage of long-term memory
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Flashbulb memory
Clear, sustained memory of an emotionally significant moment.
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Long-term potentiation (LTP)
Neural basis for learning & memory, increase in a cell’s firing potential after a brief, rapid, stimulation
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Priming
The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory
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Encoding specificity principle
Cues and context specific to a memory are most effective in helping us recall it.
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Mood-congruent memory
Tendency to recall, memories consistent with one’s good/bad mood.
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Serial position effect
Our tendency to recall the first (primacy) and last (recency) items on a list
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Anterograde amnesia
Inability to form new memories
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Retrograde amnesia
Inability to retrieve info from one’s past
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Retroactive interference
Disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of new info. Backward-acting
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Repression
Basic defense system that vanishes, anxiety, arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness (psychoanalytic theory)
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Reconsolidation
Process where previously stored memories, when retrieved could be altered before being stored again.
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Déjà vu
The sense that “I’ve experienced this before”
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Proactive interference
Disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new info Forward-acting
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Source amnesia
Faulty memory for how, when, and where info was learned
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Misinformation effect
When misleading info distorts a memory of an event
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Semantics
Selecting the correct word to convey the meaning you intend
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Syntax
Putting the words into the correct order according to grammatical standards of your language

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