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| the ability to remember the things that we have experience, imagine, and learned. |
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| german phychologist.....tests him self with memory....how long he can remember stuff. |
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| Information- processing model |
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| computer -like model used to describe the way humans encode,store and retrieve information. |
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| entry point for few information from the sense. |
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| in every day life new visual information keeps coming in to the register; and the new information replaces the old information almost immediatly, which is called MASKING. |
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| the selection of some incoming information for further processing |
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| at the entrance to the nervous system allows only those stimuli that meet certain requirement to pass through |
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| modified the filter theory---the filter is not an on-off switch,avariable control. |
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| working memory; briefly stores and process selected information from the sensory register. |
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| the grouping of information in to meaningful units for easier handling by short term memory. |
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| the portion of memory that is more or less permanent, corresponding to every thing we "know"; everything we learned is stored in the LTM. |
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| seconds unless maintained through rote rehearsal |
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| meaning rather than the exact word. |
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| recalling first items on the list |
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| Rote rehearsal...............(LTM process) |
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| retainig information in memory simply by reapeating it over and over |
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| Elaborative rehearsal.........(LTM process) |
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| the linking of new information in short term memory to familiar material stored in long term memory |
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| Mnemonics..............(LTM process) |
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| techniques thst mske msterial easier to remember( rymes and jingles) |
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| schema/ Schemata...........(LTM process) |
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| a set of belief or expectation about somthing that is based on past experience; menatl representation of an event, object, situation, person, processs etc. |
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| portion of long term memory that stores personally experienced,event; specific time and place. |
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| the portion of long term memory that stores general facts and information. |
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| the portion of LTM that stores information relating to skils, habit, and other perceptual - moter task, knowing how to (ride bike, write your name, etc.) |
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| learned emotional responses to various stimuli(loves. hater, likes, dislike, fear, etc.) |
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| memory for information that we can readily express in word and are aware of having; these memories can be intentionaly retrieved form memory; includes episodic and sematic. |
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| memory for information that we can't readily express in word and may not be ware of having; these memories can't be intentionaly retrieved from memory; procedural and emotional memories. |
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| person is known a picture or words, later shown a fragmants of the picture or few latters of the word; then asked to complete it. |
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| Tip of the tongue phenomenon (TOT) |
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| knowing a word, but not being able to immediatly recall it, frequent with stressful situation and getting older. |
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| that he argue that the passage at time causes forgeting |
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| the inalility to recall event perceding and accident or injury, but without losss of earier memory. |
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| the process by which new information interferes with information already in LTM. |
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| the process by which information alredy in memory interferes with new information |
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| the difficulty adult have remembering experience from their first 2 yers of life |
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| the ability to reproduce unusualy share and detailed images of somthing one has seen. |
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| people with highly developed events and the incidents surrounding it even after long time has passed |
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| the process where by we acquire and use knowledge |
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| There 3 important block of thought |
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| Languege...Images.....Concepts |
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| a flexible system of communication that uses sounds, rules, gestures, or symbols to convey information. |
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| the basic sounds that makes up any language. 45 in enlish lang. |
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| the smallest meaningful units of speech such as simple words, prefixes and suffixes. |
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| the language rules that determines how sounds and words can be combined and used to communicate meaning with in a language. |
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| the system of rule that governs how we combine words to form meaningful phase and sentances. |
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| how we assign meaning to morphenes words, phases, and sentances, content of lamguage. |
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| a mental representation of a sensory experience |
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a mental category for classifying objects, people or experience.
...create and organize hierachies or groups of subordinate categories. |
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| Linguistic relativily hypothesis |
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| Worf's idea that pattern of thinking are determined by the specific language one speaks. |
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| Problem solving...3 asspect |
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| Problem representation...divergent thinking....convergent thinking |
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| the first step in solving problem; it involves interpreting or defining the problems |
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| thinking that meets the criteria at originality inventiveness and flexibility; many different possible answers |
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| thinking that is directed toward one correct solution to problem. |
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| the step by step mehtod of problem solving that guarantees a correct solution |
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| rules of thumb that help in simplifying and solving problems, although they do not guarantee a correct solution |
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| a neuristic, problem solving strategy which each step moves you progressively to the final goal |
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| intermediate, more manageable goals used in one neuristic strategy to make its easier to reach the final goals breaking it down in to smaller pieces. |
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| a heuristic strategy that aims to reduce the discrioancy between the current situation and the desired goal at a number of intermediate point. |
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| a neuristic strategy in which one works backward from the desired goals to given conditions. |
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| Mental set, fuctional fixedness, brain storming |
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| the tendency to perceive onlt limited nuber of uses for an object, thus interfering with the process of problem solving |
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| a problem solving strategy in which an individual or a group produces number ideas and evaluates them only after all ideas have been collected. |
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| Compensatory model,..faming... |
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| a rational decision making model in which choices are systematically evaluates on varicose criteria |
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| the perspective from which we interpret information before making a desicion |
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| Binet intelligence scale....wechslet adult intelligence scale...third edition(WAIS III)- wechsler intelligence scale for children- third edition (WISC III) |
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| Intelligence quotient (IQ) |
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| a numerical value given to intelligence that is determined from the scores on an intelligence test on the basis of a score of 100 for average intelligence. |
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| ability of a test to produce consistence and stable scores |
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| a method of determining test reability by dividing the test into 2 part and cheking the agreement of scores on both parts. |
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| Correlation coefficiencents |
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| statistical measures of the degree of association between two variable. |
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| ability of a test to measure what it has been designed to measure |
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| refers to a test's having an adequate sample of questions measuring the skills or knowledge it is supposed to measure |
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| Criterian- related validity |
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| validity of a test as measured by a comparison of the test score and independent measures of what the test is designed to measure. |
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