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| memory process that stores the meaning of a message but not the exact words |
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| people "remember" an item that was not originally presented |
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| Constructive Model of Memory |
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| 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 |
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| They are higher-level, or more general 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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| Two people who coined the term "schema" |
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| Simple, well-structured sequence of events that are associated with a very familiar activity |
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| Set of objects that belong together |
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| Our mental representations of a category |
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| Sentence Verification Technique |
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| 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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| 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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| Concepts are stored in memory according to a list of necessary features or characteristics |
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| Attributes that are merely descriptive but are not essential |
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| Attributes that are necessary for the meaning of an item |
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| 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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| Give people two unrelated words and ask them to remember the pair if only one item is named. |
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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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| 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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