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| extending and transforming knowledge and constructed/ built. Not acquired. |
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| Mental process of acquiring knowledge through thought, senses and expierences |
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| Domain Specific Knowledge |
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task/ course specific.
Ex: science, history football, etc |
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| Non specific, something that is used from a previous concept and used to try to understand something else. |
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| Initial thought process from environmental stimuli. Lasts 1-3 seconds |
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| Iconic Content from Sensory Memory |
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| Visual information (like a photograph) |
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| Echoic Content from Sensory Memory |
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| Sound information like an echo |
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| Process of detecting a stimulus and assigning meaning to it |
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| broken into pieces and assembled from bottom to top. Organized to make meaningful wholes |
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Applying what we know to new situations.
General knowledge to specific. |
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| new info combined with pre existing long term memory, aka workbench. Can hold between 5 and 7 pieces of info. Has 3 parts - Central Executive, Phonological Loop, and Visuospatial Sketchpad. |
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| Control and Decision processes. Reasoning and language comprehension, transfers information to long term memory via rehearsal or recording. |
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System for rehearsing words and sounds. Immediate recall from recycling.
Ex. repeating phone # to remember it. |
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| holds images and allows you to manipulate them |
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| amount of attention needed for specific task |
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| Extraneous cognitive load |
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| distractions. Amount of cognitive capacity used to deal with other things other than the task needed to be complete. |
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| repeating info in your head |
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| Connecting what you already know |
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| grouping info into meaningful pieces |
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