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How we learn
Ways we encode data
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
02/14/2017

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LEARNING
Definition
A long-term change in mental associations and representations as a result of experience.
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Bottom -up
Definition
Perception Start @ bottom
flavor LGN work my way up
smell, taste, retina
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Stroop processing
Definition
looking as data comes in determining what it is ahead of time.
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context
Definition
to weave things together (pattern recognition)
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Perception
Definition
where I am in the world (larger than its part)
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context cues
Definition
things in my atmosphere that cue memories
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type of context cue associated with atmosphere
Definition
encoding specificity
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Memory curve
Definition
memory drops off rapidly
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law of proximity
Definition
we perceive things as a unit if they are in close proximity(space) of each other (Paired Association)
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law of closure
Definition
si-gi-g in -h- rain
Filling in missing pieces
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law of similarity
Definition
we perceive those things that physically resemble one another as a unit
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Pollyanna principle
Definition
the tendency for people to remember pleasant things over unpleasant things
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near transfer
Definition
things that are similar from one situation to the next ( like driving a car, then learning how to drive a truck)
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far transfer
Definition
skills and knowledge applied the same way every time their used
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state dependent mood
Definition
when I recall material in the same mood I was in when I learned it (if I was happy should be happy to recall material)
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information processing
Definition
how I perceive and process information around me
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behavior
Definition
the way I act, things I do
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concepts
Definition
rules
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facts
Definition
Organize this?
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distributed practice
Definition
spreading study time over several occasions
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overlearn
Definition
learn material perfectly and continue to study
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recency effect
Definition
tendency for last things on a list to be learned and remembered
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primacy effect
Definition
the first things on a list tend to be learned and remembered easily
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paired associates
Definition
learning pairs of items S+R
(ie: Big Apple, New York)
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serial learning
Definition
learning a set of items in a particular order
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