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attention, memory, Emotion, language
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
10/22/2013

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Orienting
Definition
sensory systems orient to new stimulus usually a new stimulus like a car driving by.
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Executive attention
Definition
You decide what to pay attention to.
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Endogenous attention
Definition
voluntary and directed attention
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exogenous attention
Definition
reflexive involuntary attention
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sustained attention
Definition
the ability to maintain a consistent behaviroal response during continous and reptitive activity
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Inhibitory function of attention
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the inability to sutain constant attention
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learning
Definition
acquiring new or modifying and reinforcing existing knowledge, behaviors skills values or prefrenses
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Memory
Definition
is the process in which information is encoded stored and retrieved
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sensory memory/ Registration
Definition
allows individuals to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stivulus has ceased
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short term memory
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is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active readily available state for a short period of time.
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working memory
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is the system that actively holds multiple peices of transitory information in the mind where it can be manipulated
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long term memory
Definition
is memory in which association among items are stored. for later use and recall.
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Recent memory
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is a system for temporarily storying and managing the information required to carry out complex congnitive tasks such as learning
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remote memory
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memory that is servicealbe for events long past but not able to acquire new recollections
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explicit memory
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is the conscious intentional recollection of previous experiences and information
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implicit memory
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type of memory in which previous experiences aid in the perofrmance of a task without consicous awareness of these previous experience.
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episodic memory
Definition
memory of time, places and contextual knowledge.
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encoding
Definition
the process of things seen or pericieved being moved to short term or long term memory
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Retrieval
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the abilty to retrieve events from the past.
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interference
Definition
past memorys and experiences that affect learning new material
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phoneme
Definition
basic unit of language, added together the create morphemes
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morpheme
Definition
smalles unit in language
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prosody
Definition
characteristics of speech style
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fluency
Definition
delivering information quickly and with expertise
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Modularity Hypothesis
Definition
the idea that the mind is composed of independent and domain specific processin modules
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Sapir whorf Hypothesis
Definition
language dertermines thought and that lingustic categories limt and determine cognitive categories
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expressive language
Definition
is the ability to communicate with others using language
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receptive language
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is the ability to listen and understand language
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emotion
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is a subjective conscious experience  characterized primariy by mental states and biological reactions
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affect
Definition
Change of emotion or symptom
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feeling
Definition
physical sensation of touch
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primary emotions
Definition
8 basic emotions like anger sadness and so on.
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secondary emotions
Definition
combonation of primary emotions with cultural conditioning
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emotional regulation
Definition
the ability to resond to the ongoing demand of experience with the range of emotions in a manner othat is scially tolreable.
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Threat appraisal
Definition
assesses the severity of the situation and examines how serious the situation is.
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empathy
Definition
the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another person.
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Trail making test
Definition
visual attention and task switching
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stroop test
Definition
test of attento
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