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| Memorized nonsense syllables; SPACING EFFECT: distributed practice yields better long term retention; LEVELS OF PROCESSING: Visual, Acoustic, & Semantic (deepest level of encoding); CHUNKING: Organizing information into more manageable units. |
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| Levels of Storage (Memory) |
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Sensory: holds for a few seconds; from senses. Hepatic < 1 second.
Short Term: holds for more than a few seconds, but less than a minute; capacity: 7 minutes.
REHEARSAL: keeping short term memory by rehearsing.
Long term: holds for indefinite amount of time; no known capacity. |
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| With conscious recall; Semantic Memory: facts and general knowledge; Episodic Memory: Personal experienced events. |
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| Unconscious recall; Procedural Memory: motor and cognitive skills; Priming Memory: enhanced education; identification of objects or words. |
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Recall: person must produce from memory (fill in blank)
Recognition: identifying information as familiar (multiple choice) |
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| 9 weeks: grape; 14 weeks: lemon; 23 weeks: mango; 33 weeks: cantaloupe. |
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| Toddler Attachment Levels |
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Secure: 65% of infants; best.
Avoidant: 20%; not responsive to mother when she leaves; may actively avoid contact with mother when returns.
Resistant: 10-15%; display anger and sadness after mother returns. |
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| Stages of development; sensorimotor stage: information through senses; preoperational stage: have somewhat of an understanding of physical world (concept of conservation and are egocentric, but lack a theory of mind); Concrete Operational Stage: children understand previous laws; Formal Operational Stage: can think abstractly. |
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| Three stages of moral development; Preconventional: determined by consequences; Conventional: determined by rules; Postconventional: reflect core values, etc. |
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Id (unconscious mind)
Ego (conscious mind)
Superego (preconscious mind; in between) |
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| Defense Mechanisms (Freud) |
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Repression
Regression
Reaction Formation (say something; mean another)
Projection
Rationalization
Displacement (shift desire to something more appropriate) |
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| Identified over 18,000 words that described personality traits; try to condense these words into fewer categories (factor analysis). |
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External Locus: chance or outside forces determine our fate
Internal Locus: we determine our lives, etc |
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