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Psychology of Learning
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Method of Loci
associating memory with items in room to recall
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language
a form of communication
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nature vs. nurture
nature = problem solving, nurture = common sense
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nativist theory
people belief we are wired to talk
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LAD
language acquisition device, makes us talk
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critical period
the idea that you have to learn at least one language by the age of twelve or you wont learn one at all
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age 12
language should be learned if not then you wont be able to
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social interactionism
nurture
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broccas vs. wernickes
broccas = speak, wernickes = understanding
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temporal lobe
hearing (understanding)
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cooing
1-2 months (mouth muscles)
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jargon-babbling
2-3 months (noises,sounds)
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overregulation
grammical mistakes that are overused/wrong
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morphemes
units of language or word language
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ex-social rules of language
volume, tone, speed, body language
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thinking
processing information
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symbols
anything that stands for something
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concepts
categories relating to each other
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natural categories
first hand experiences
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artificial categories
things you haven’t witnessed first hand
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common sense/intuition
experience/nurture limbic system
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schemas
when we group information
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scripts (event schema)
a prediction
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algorithms/formulas
never wrong, cant always be used, take long
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heuristics
whenever you guess
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working backwards
retracing steps, problem solving
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means-end analysis
instructions/checklists/to-do list
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difference reduction
seeing how far away you are from your goal (+ and -)
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mental set
a problem solving method
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functional fixedness
when your so sure that something can only be used for only one purpose
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anchoring bias
past memories/
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representative bias
pattern
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availability bias
limited information
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creativity
imagination
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logic
a way to solve problems
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7 sins of forgetting
decay,absent mindness, suggestibility, bias,mis-attribution, interference, persistence
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4 ways to aid memory
chunking, retrieval, numantic devices, levels of processing
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why do we have seven sins of memory? how do the seven sins help man?
we have seven sins of memory because they make more effective and fast working.
the seven sins help man because they keep the important stuff and get rid of everything else.