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| limited in duration and capacity |
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| retention independent of coscious recollection |
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memory of facts and experiences that one can consiously declare.
DECLARATIVE memory |
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momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli.
photographic image lasting no more than a few seconds |
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| momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli |
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difficulty in informing new memories for events that accur after brain trauma
Difficulty learning new material |
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| inability to recall events that occured prior to trauma |
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hippocampus
Neural center in limbic sys. that helps process memories for storage |
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| Long Term Potentiation (LTP) |
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| increase in synapse firing potential after brief rapid stimulation with in hippocampus |
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| mental activities associated with thinking knowing and remembering and communicating |
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| cognition as info processing |
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series of sequential stages
- each stage consists of unique process
-receives ifo from previous stages and adds to its own |
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designing and programing computer systems.
- to do intelligent things
-stimulate human thought process |
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| computer neural networks ( CNS) |
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computer circuits that mimic brains interconnected neural cells
-performing tasks
-learning to recognize visual patterns
-learning to recognize smells |
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| mental grouping of simular objects events ideas or people |
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mental image
-matching new items to the prototype provides a quick and easy method for including items |
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sudden realization of the solution to a problem
- contrasts w/ stratagy based solutions |
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| tendency to search for info that confirms ones perceptions |
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| inability to see problems from new perspectives |
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| tendency to be more confidant than correct |
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way issue is posed.
-significantly affects decisions and judgement |
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| tendency to see ones preexisting belief to distort logical reasoning |
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| clinging to ones inital conceptions after the bias of which they were formed has been descredited |
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| clinging to ones inital conceptions after the bias of which they were formed has been descredited |
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