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Unit 7 memory thinking language
cognition
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Psychology
12th Grade
11/25/2013

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cognition
Definition
all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering
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memory
Definition
the idea that somehow you get to put a experience in your mind, storing bringing, then later bringing it out
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flash bulb memory
Definition
very significant to you, a a clear moment or an emotionally significant moment or event
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information processing model
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compares our memory to a computer in storing information
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encoding
Definition
what you do to learn something
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visual encoding
Definition
the encoding of a picture or image
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acoustic encoding
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the encoding of sound, especially the sound of voices
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semantic encoding
Definition
encoding the meaning, strongest way of encoding
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storage
Definition
retention or encoded material over time
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retrieval
Definition
the process or getting the information out of memory storage
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who created the stages of memory
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Atkinson- shrifiin
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sensory memory
Definition
initial stimulus memory, combined stimuli create a short lived memory
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iconic memory
Definition
visual 1 or 2 seconds
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echoic memory
Definition
auditory sounds
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short term memory
Definition
working memory the stuff we encode from sensory goes to STM
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George miller
Definition
studied stm wrote a book
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long term memory
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has two types
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semitic memory
Definition
facts and general knowledge
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episodic memory
Definition
personal stories
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procedural memory
Definition
procedure memory, step by step
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parallel processing t
Definition
think to do something at the same time, like ceral and milk
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Automatic processing
Definition
unconsciously processed
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effortful processing
Definition
you have to consciously put effort into processing and remembering
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rehearsal
Definition
repeating the info until you remember it
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spacing effect
Definition
its better to remember things over a course of time and not all at once
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serial position effect
Definition
we have a tendency to remember only the beginning and end of something
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priming effect
Definition
remember the beginning
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regency effect
Definition
remember the end
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imagery
Definition
mental picture
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mnemonic device
Definition
aid to memory ex- story of pie, rogebib
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chunking
Definition
organizing items into smaller manageable units
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hierarchy
Definition
systems in which concepts are divided and sub divided than divided over and over again
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schema
Definition
what your mind does with different experiences. your mind organizes them and you cluster them to remember
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amnesia
Definition
loss of memory
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recall
Definition
retrieve info from memory
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recognition
Definition
you must pick fro a amount ex- multiple choice
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relearning
Definition
you forget something and it comes back ex- riding a bike
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priming
Definition
you start to notice the little things in someone driving or their car mishaps because you get a new car
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deja vu
Definition
the feeling of already been there and done that
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mood congruent memory
Definition
tendency to put yourself into a mood because you recall a memory and you remember what you felt at that time
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retrieval time
Definition
tendency to recall is based on the mood the memory was encoded
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proactive interference
Definition
old information gets in the way of new information
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retroactive interference
Definition
new information blocks old information
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repression
Definition
idea based on that you had a bad experience or something you wanted to forget so you push that memory down so you never remember it
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decay theory
Definition
even if we encode something we still forget, fade or disappear
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misinformation effect
Definition
idea that sometimes we encode wrong information
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source amnesia
Definition
we all have memory but you may forget a pieced of memory so you throw in not real stuff but you believe its real
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cognition
Definition
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prototype
Definition
a mental image of a best example for a category
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algorithm
Definition
a way of problem solving, done by a step by step process and is time consuming
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heuristics
Definition
rule of thumb strategy that often lets us make judgements to solve a problem
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representativeness heuristic
Definition
judging a situation based on how similar the aspects are ti prototypes
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insight
Definition
a sudden and often realization
what that thing called? oh yea a door knob
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creativity
Definition
help in problem solving
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convergent thinking
Definition
you believe there us only one way to do things
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divergent
Definition
there are many different ways to do things
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conformation bias
Definition
tendency to search for information that only helps one opinion
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fixation
Definition
inability to see a problem from a new perspective
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functional fixedness
Definition
inability to see a new use for an object
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belief perseverance
Definition
when all the proof that you have proves you wrong but you still believe
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intuition
Definition
gut feeling
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framing
Definition
the way a problem is interpreted
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language
Definition
spoken, written gesture to communicate meaning
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phoneme
Definition
strongest distintive sound, just a letter
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morpheme
Definition
smallest unit that carries meaning
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grammar
Definition
system of rules in language
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semantics
Definition
we derven meaning in a language. the meaning from a word or sound
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syntax
Definition
the rules for coming words into grammatically sensible sentences
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language development
Definition
has 3 stages
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babbling stage
Definition
spontaneous sounds 3-4 months in age
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one word stage
Definition
uses one word to communicate age of 2
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two word stage
Definition
stage 2 words to communicate
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operant learning explanation of language
Definition
skinner said we learned language through operant conditioning
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language acquisition device
Definition
biologically we are born ready to speak and "machine" turns on and we just begin to talk
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noam chomsky
Definition
theory of this "machine"
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critical period
Definition
when you have a time period that is best fit to learn
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overgeneralization
Definition
over application of grammar rules
"tom wants milk"- dailee
"dailee wants milk"- dailee
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linguistic determinism
Definition
the language you speak determines how you perceive the world
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