Porcoro #2

memory

Method of Loci

Method of Loci

associating memory with items in room to recall

language

a form of communication

nature vs. nurture

nature = problem solving, nurture = common sense

nativist theory

people belief we are wired to talk

LAD

language acquisition device, makes us talk

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

age 12

language should be learned if not then you wont be able to

social interactionism

nurture

broccas vs. wernickes

broccas = speak, wernickes = understanding

temporal lobe

hearing (understanding)

cooing

1-2 months (mouth muscles)

jargon-babbling

2-3 months (noises,sounds)

overregulation

grammical mistakes that are overused/wrong

morphemes

units of language or word language

ex-social rules of language

volume, tone, speed, body language

thinking

processing information

symbols

anything that stands for something

concepts

categories relating to each other

natural categories

first hand experiences

artificial categories

things you haven’t witnessed first hand

common sense/intuition

experience/nurture limbic system

schemas

when we group information

scripts (event schema)

a prediction

algorithms/formulas

never wrong, cant always be used, take long

heuristics

whenever you guess

working backwards

retracing steps, problem solving

means-end analysis

instructions/checklists/to-do list

difference reduction

seeing how far away you are from your goal (+ and -)

mental set

a problem solving method

functional fixedness

when your so sure that something can only be used for only one purpose

anchoring bias

past memories/

representative bias

pattern

availability bias

limited information

creativity

imagination

logic

a way to solve problems

7 sins of forgetting

decay,absent mindness, suggestibility, bias,mis-attribution, interference, persistence

4 ways to aid memory

chunking, retrieval, numantic devices, levels of processing

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.