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Details Title: memory Description: thinking Total Flash Cards: 24 Created: 10/25/2004 17:55:49	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term short term memory Definition limited in duration and capacity Term implicit memory Definition retention independent of coscious recollection Term explicit memory Definition memory of facts and experiences that one can consiously declare. DECLARATIVE memory Term iconic memory Definition momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli. photographic image lasting no more than a few seconds Term echoic memory Definition momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli Term amnesia Definition lost of memory Term anterograde amnesia Definition difficulty in informing new memories for events that accur after brain trauma Difficulty learning new material Term retrograde amnesia Definition inability to recall events that occured prior to trauma Term synaptic changes Definition hippocampus Neural center in limbic sys. that helps process memories for storage Term Long Term Potentiation (LTP) Definition increase in synapse firing potential after brief rapid stimulation with in hippocampus Term Cognition Definition mental activities associated with thinking knowing and remembering and communicating Term cognition as info processing Definition series of sequential stages - each stage consists of unique process -receives ifo from previous stages and adds to its own Term artificial intelligence Definition designing and programing computer systems. - to do intelligent things -stimulate human thought process Term computer neural networks ( CNS) Definition computer circuits that mimic brains interconnected neural cells -performing tasks -learning to recognize visual patterns -learning to recognize smells Term concept Definition mental grouping of simular objects events ideas or people Term prototype Definition mental image -matching new items to the prototype provides a quick and easy method for including items Term insight Definition sudden realization of the solution to a problem - contrasts w/ stratagy based solutions Term confirmation bias Definition tendency to search for info that confirms ones perceptions Term fixation Definition inability to see problems from new perspectives Term overconfidance Definition tendency to be more confidant than correct Term framing Definition way issue is posed. -significantly affects decisions and judgement Term belief bias Definition tendency to see ones preexisting belief to distort logical reasoning Term belief perseverance Definition clinging to ones inital conceptions after the bias of which they were formed has been descredited Term belief perseverance Definition clinging to ones inital conceptions after the bias of which they were formed has been descredited