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Psychology
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10/25/2004

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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
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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
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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
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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
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