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| our ability to store and retrieve info |
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| momentary info for visual info |
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| momentary info for visual info |
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| momentary info for auditory info |
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| memory aid that helps us organize info |
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| grouping of info into meaningful units for easier handling by short term memory |
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| portion of memory that is more or less permanent corresponding to everything we "know" |
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| if your happy, youll remember bad memories and opposite for if you're in a bad mood |
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| (long term) memory of facts and experiences |
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| (long term) memory that stores general facts and information |
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| (long term) memory for events that you've personally experienced |
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| retention of skills and preferences |
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| learned emotional responses to various stimulii |
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| stores info about skills, habits, and other perceptual motor tasks |
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| a person is shown in stimulus usually a picture or word, later they are shown the fragment of the stimulus and asked to complete the fragments |
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| long lasting change in the structure or function of a synapse that increases the efficiency of neural transmission and is thought to be related to how info is stored by neurons |
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| theory that argues that the passage of time causes forgetting |
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| inability to recall events preceding an incident or injury but without loss of earlier memory |
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| process by which new info interferes with stored info |
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| the process by which info already in memory interferes with storing new info |
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| (top) involved in storing procedural memories |
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| involved in the storage of short term memories |
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| vital to the formation of new emotional memories |
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| plays a vital role in the formation of new long term semantic and eposodic memories |
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| plays an important role in the stage of procedural memories |
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| attempting to remember something in a different situation or internal state may negatively impact memory |
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| memories are reconstructed or replaced with incorrect info which is more consistent with a current image or perception |
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| difficulty adults have remembering experiences from their first two years of life |
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| the ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed images of something once seen |
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| people with highly developed memory skills |
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| a vivid memory of a certain event and the incidents surrounding it even after a long time has passed |
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| getting yourself to do something. A need or desire that directs your behavior towards a goal |
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| not learned, directs us, fixed patterns |
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| feeling that underlies behavior |
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| set weight/range that you stay around |
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| hormone released by fat cells that reduce apetite |
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| hormone in stomach and small intestines that increase apetite |
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| hormone that keeps glucose balanced |
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| the brain monitors levels of glucose, fats, carbs, and hormones |
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| external stimulus that promotes goal directed behavior |
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| inability to have or maintain an erection |
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| low sex drive (libido) or can't have an orgasm |
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| study of changes that occur in people from birth to death |
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| Developmental psychologists |
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deal with nature vs nurture
nurture oriented |
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| steady path of progress vs. development in stages |
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| do we stay the same person? or do we change |
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| stage of development from conception to birth |
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| 3 months after conception |
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| substances that can result in birth defects (alcohol, drugs) |
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| fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (fasd) |
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| disorders that occur in women's children that drank alcohol during pregnancies. Form facial deformities, heart defects, stunted growth, and brain damage |
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| characteristic patterns of emotional reactions and emotional self regulation |
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| logical orderly sequence of biological growth (walk before run) |
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| cognative development is a way of adapting to the enviorment. Accomodate our info so that our schema is always changing |
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| take a new experience and put it into an existing schema |
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| An organized pattern of thought or behavior |
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| altering one’s existing schemas, or ideas, as a result of new information or new experiences |
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| rules without reasoning, "because i said so" |
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| demanding but responsive (with reasoning) |
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| make few demands, little punishments |
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| few rules (can be contradicted), possibly abusive |
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