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Exam 4
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
04/13/2012

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Abstraction/gist
Definition
memory process that stores the meaning of a message but not the exact words
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False alarm
Definition
people "remember" an item that was not originally presented
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Constructive Model of Memory
Definition
People integrate information from individual sentences in order to construct larger ideas
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Eleanor Rosch's prototype approach
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You decide whether an item belongs to a category by comparing it with the best example of its category.
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Superordinate level categories
Definition
They are higher-level, or more general categories.
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Basic-level categories
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Moderately specific category; usually what comes to mind when asked to name an example of a category
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Subordinate-level category
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Lower-level and more specific
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Bartlett and Piaget
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Two people who coined the term "schema"
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Script
Definition
Simple, well-structured sequence of events that are associated with a very familiar activity
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Category
Definition
Set of objects that belong together
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Concept
Definition
Our mental representations of a category
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Sentence Verification Technique
Definition
People see simple sentences, and they must consult their stored semantic knowledge to determine whether the sentences are true or false; RT is measured
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Typicality effect
Definition
People reach decisions faster when an item is a typical member of a category, rather than an unusual member; unusual members are judged against a typical member
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Feature Comparison Model
Definition
Concepts are stored in memory according to a list of necessary features or characteristics
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Characteristic feature
Definition
Attributes that are merely descriptive but are not essential
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Defining feature
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Attributes that are necessary for the meaning of an item
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Feeling of knowing (FOK)
Definition
Prediction about whether you could correctly recognize the correct answer to a question; much more conscious than tip-of-the-tongue
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Judgment of Learning (JOL)
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Forming a judgment of how well you know a body of information or individual facts/information
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Pair associate task
Definition
Give people two unrelated words and ask them to remember the pair if only one item is named.
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Graded structure
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Beginning with the most representative or prototypical members and continuing on through the category's nontypical members
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Bransford & Franks (1971)
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Gave people sentences from books and then mismashed them and tested people on recognizing the "fake" sentences; tests verbatim memory
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Helene Intraub
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Found the boundary extension phenomenon in her study of testing people's memories for photographs; tended to add a background that wasn't really there based on schemas and gists
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