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| accuracy (behavioral method) |
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used to address a wide variety of processing-from discrimination to recall
can be used as an objective measure of processing effectiveness
hazards: ceiling effects, floor effects, speed-accuracy tradeoffs |
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| response time (behavioral method) |
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used to determine cognitive processing speed (conscious and unconscious)
limitations: sensitive to experimental expectancy effects and task demands |
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| judgment (behavioral method) |
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allows researchers to asses subjective reactions to a measure or experimental design
easy and inexpensive to collect
limitations: prior knowledge of scales, information may be outside conscious awareness |
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| protocol collection (behavioral method) |
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Definition
speaking aloud one's thoughts about a problem
allows examination of sequence of thought processes
limitations: most cognitive processes occur too quickly, cannot provide a full picture of underlying processes |
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| transience (sin of memory) |
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forgetting as time goes by, less able to remember details, negative accelerated learning
constructive approach becomes more important as details are lost over time and must be filled in |
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tip of the tongue phenomenon, something is interfering with memory for a given entity
people often have partial knowledge of what they're trying to remember
may be a problem of inhibition |
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| absent mindedness (sin of memory) |
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Definition
attentional problem, problem of prospective memory-failure to remember something you said you would do (not fulfilling intentions)
cannot assume you will remember
cued reminders in the environment to help |
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they way we think may say a lot about the way we are now
misremember prior beliefs as more in line with present beliefs than may actually have been
evidence of constructivist autobiographical long term memory |
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| persistence (sin of memory) |
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Definition
too much remembering, remember more, more often, more persistent than you want
unbidden memories (PTSD)
implication of hippocampus
less extreme variant: earworms |
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| misattribution (sin of memory) |
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Definition
source memory problem, telling the same story over and over may leas to inadvertently changing the story
e.g. eyewitness reports and memory misattribution
failures of memory for the source of the information, DRM effect |
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| suggestibility (sin of memory) |
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misinformation effect
leading questions and eyewitness testimonies affected by false memories for prior events
memories become distorted by absorbing information presented that may not have been at the original source |
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