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| What are the 3 kinds of memory and what are they called? |
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Sensory memory- the immediate recording of sensory information
Short-term memory- memory that lasts for a few seconds before being forgotten or stored
Long-term memory- the relatively permanent and infinite storehouse of knowledge, skills, and experiences |
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| What is the forgetting curve and who came up with this theory? |
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What we forget it lost relatively soon afer we learn it and your amount of forgetting eventually levels off
Hermann Ebbinghaus |
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| What is long term potentiation? |
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| The prolonged strengthening of potential neural firing that provides a neural basis for learning and remembering associations |
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| What is the difference between implicit and explicit memory? |
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| Implicit memory is simply learning how to do something while explicit memory is learning how to do something and being able to declare that you know it |
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| Which brain structure is responsible for forming and storing implicit memories and is also the last brain structure to mature? |
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| A clue or hint that helps trigger recall |
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| What is mood congruent memory? |
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| What we learn in one mood may be more easily recalled in that mood again |
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| What are the 3 sins of forgetting? |
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Absent-mindedness- inattention to details
transience-storage decay over time
blocking- inaccessibility of stored information |
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| What is proactive interference? |
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| Something learned earlier disrupts the recall of something experienced later |
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| What is retroactive interference? |
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| New information makes it harder to recall something learned earlier |
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| What are supression and repression? |
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Types of motivated forgetting
Supression- conscious
Repression- unconscious |
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| What is the misinformation effect? |
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| After exposure to subtle misinformation many people misremember a situation |
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| What is imagination inflation? |
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| People who repeatedly imagine acts are more likely to think they have actually done such things |
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| Retaining the memory of an event but not the context in which we acquired it |
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| A step by step procedure that guarentees a solution |
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| A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently |
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| A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem |
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| Coming to a conclusion or making a judgment without conscious awareness of the thought process |
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| What is confirmation bias? |
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| A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence |
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| What is functional fixedness? |
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| The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions |
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| What is the representative heuristic? |
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| Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent partiular prototypes |
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| What is the availibility heuristic? |
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| Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availibility in memory |
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| The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language |
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| In language, the smallest distinctive sound unit |
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| The smallest of language that carries meaning |
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| What are B.F. Skinner's learning principles of language? |
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| Association, imitation, and reinforcement |
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| Who is the theorist that believes in a language acquisition device? |
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| What is linguistic determinism and whose hypothesis is this? |
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The hypothesis that language determines the way we think
Benjamin Lee Whorf |
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| The view that memories emerge from interconnected neural networks |
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| What is the three-stage processing model? |
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1. Information is recorded into sensory memory
2. Information is processed into short term/working memory
3. Information moves into long term memory |
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