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| Characteristics of objects that appear to remain the same despite retinal image changes that occur when viewing conditions change. |
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| when an object appears to remain the same size, even though its retinal image changes size when the object moves farther away or closer |
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| when an object appears to maintain the same shape, even though its retinal image changes shape when the object is rotated in space. |
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| when a white, gray, or black object appears onstant in the degree to which it looks light or dark, even though the amount of light reflected from the object changes when the amount of light shining on it changes. |
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| theory was developed by James Gibson in work that began in the 1940s. Humans eveolved through natural selection in the real, three dimensional world, and that process eventuated in a perceptual system that is extremely efficient at picking up the kinds of information needed for survival in that world. |
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| objects that exist in the direct perceptual field. |
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| Debated on by philosophers the world over. The experiencing of one's own mental events in such a manner that one can report on them to others. |
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| refers to all of the information in a person's mind and to the mind's capacity to store and retrieve that information. |
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| the model of the mind that encompasses this entire chapter. |
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| Memory Stores- P. 326 chart |
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| divided into three areas, sensory memory, Working (short term) memory, and Long-term memory. |
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| includes attention, regearsal, encoding, and retrieval which govern the processing of information within stores and the movement of information from one store to the other. |
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| Less than a second for sights and more than a couple seconds for sound. |
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| Conceived as the major workplace of the mind. It is the seat of conscious thought-the place where all conscious perceiving, feeling, comparing, computing, and reasoning take place. |
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| another name for the working memory, older but still referred to in psychological thought. |
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| once an item has passed from sensory memory into working memory, it then goes into this. It is the stored representation of all that a person knows. |
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| the process that controls the flow of information from the sensory store into working memory. |
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| the process that controls movement from working memory into the long term store. ex: memorizing words for a test |
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| the process that controls the flow of information from the long-term store into working memory. |
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| the brief memory trace for a specific visual stimulus. |
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| responsible for holding verbal information |
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| responsible for holding verbal information |
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| responsible for holding visual and spatial information |
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| Responsible for coordinating the mind's activities and for bringing new information into working memory from the sensory and long term stores. |
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| the process by which a person holds information in working memory for a period of time |
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| the process by which a person encodes information into the long-term store. |
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| tying an item to a structure of information that already exists in long term memory. |
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