AP Psych Unit 5: Cognitive psychology

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Confirmation bias

________: tendency to search for info that supports our preconceptions and ignore contradictory info.

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Stereotype threat

________: tendency to perform worse when conscious of being in a group stereotyped as performing poorly.

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Cognition

________: another term for thinking, knowing, and remembering.

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Emotional Intelligence

________ (EG): ability to perceive, express, understand and regulate emotions.

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Kohlers Chimpanzees

________: exhibited that chimps can problem solve.

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Alan Baddeley

Working memory: ________, newer understanding of ST memory that focuses on conscious, active processing and info retrieval from LT memory.

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Retrieval cues

________: things that help us remember.

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Representativeness heuristic

________: judging a situation based on how similar the aspects are to the prototype the person

holds in their mind.

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Serial position

________ effect: our tendency to recall the last and 1st items in a list.

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Creativity

________: ability to produce new and value ideas.

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BF Skinner

Social learning theory: ________, if they are reinforced theyll keep saying the word, where if they are punished theyll stop saying the word.

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Grammar

________: a system of structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in a language.

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STM

Encoding failure: not getting info from ________ or LTM.

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Prototype

________: a mental image or best example of a category.

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Achievement

________: tests that measures what youve learned.

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everyday tasks

Practical: required for ________ where multiple solutions exist.

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Von Restorff

________ effect: something unique in the middle of a list causes a spike in memory.

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Semantics

________: the set of rules by which we derive meaning in language.

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Insight intuition

________: a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.

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Mnemonic devices

________: memory aids, the peg- word and loci method.

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William Stern

________ derived the famous formula for I.Q.

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Misinformation effect

________: incorporating misleading info into ones memory of an event.

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Memory

________: Ability to remember things we have experienced, imagined, or learned.

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Validity

________: measure what its supposed to measure.

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Concepts

________: a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

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Intellectual disability

________: a condition of limited mental ability (70 IQ + below)

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Reliability

________: consistent results over time.

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Source amnesia

________ (misattribution): the inability to remember when, where or how previously learned info has been acquired, while retaining the factual knowledge.

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Availability Heuristics

________: availability; judging a situation based on examples of similar situations that initially come to mind.

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Morphemes

________: the smallest unit of meaningful sound.

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Rehearsal

________ is the most common effortful processing technique.

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Implicit memory

________: retention of learned skills.

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Divergent thinking

________: expanding the number of solutions.

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Language

________: can be spoken, written or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.

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Syntax

________: the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.

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Recall

________: retrieving info not currently in conscious awareness.

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Recognition

________: identifying items previously learned.

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Aptitude

________: measure ability or potential.

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Convergent thinking

________: narrowing solutions to determine single best one.

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Algorithms

________: a methodical, logistical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.

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Genetic influence

________: intelligence is 50 % inherited.

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Information Processing Model

Memory is often seen as ________ (IPM)

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Flashbulb Memory

________: clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.

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Proactive

________: Old info blocks out new info.

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Nativist theory

________: Noam Chomsky; we learn language too quickly for it to be "learned through reinforcement and punishment.

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Retrospective memory

________: things from the past.

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Retrieval Failure

________: The memory was encoded and stored but sometimes you just cant access the memory.

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Mood

________- congruent memory: tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad mood.

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Wechsler Intelligence Tests

________: separate scores of separate skills.

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Linguistic determinism Hypothesis

________: Whorf; the idea that language determines the way we think.

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Memory

Ability to remember things we have experienced, imagined, or learned

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There are three stage model

sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory

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Sensory memory

record info as fleeting

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Short-term memory

where we encode memory thru rehearsal

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Long-term memory

moves here for later retrieval

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Recall

retrieving info not currently in conscious awareness

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Recognition

identifying items previously learned

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Relearning

learning something more quickly when learning it for a 2nd time

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Working memory

Alan Baddeley, newer understanding of ST memory that focuses on conscious, active processing and info retrieval from LT memory

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Focused Attention

also called selective attention

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Divided Attention

splitĀ focus losing info from both producers

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Retrospective memory

things from the past

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Prospective memory

things in the future

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encoding

The process of into the memory system

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storage

the retention of encoded material over time

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retrieval

the process of getting the info out of memory storage

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Chunking

organizing items into familiar, manageable units

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Mnemonic devices

memory aids, the peg-word and loci method

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Rehearsal

repetition

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Explicit memories

memory of facts and experience

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Implicit memory

retention of learned skills

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Primacy effect

1st things on a list

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Recency effect

last things on a list

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Von Restorff effect

something unique in the middle of a list causes a spike in memory

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Long-term Potentiation

strengthening of neural pathways

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Short term memory hold about 7(+ or

  1. items for about 20 seconds

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Long-term memory

unlimited storehouse of info

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Flashbulb Memory

clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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Retrieval cues

things that help us remember

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Priming

the activation of associations in our memory

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Context dependent memory

can prime memory retrieval

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Encoding specificity principle

the idea that cues and context specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it

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State dependent memory

what we learn in one state (i.e

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Serial position effect

our tendency to recall the last and 1st items in a list

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Frontal lobe and Hippocampus

storing explicit memories

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Damage hippocampus

disrupt memory

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Cerebellum

implicit memory

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Encoding failure

not getting info from STM or LTM

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Retrieval Failure

The memory was encoded and stored but sometimes you just cant access the memory

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Retroactive

new info blocks out old info

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Proactive

Old info blocks out new info

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Repression

a defense mechanism where we forget things we dont want to remember

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Misinformation effect

incorporating misleading info into ones memory of an event

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Source amnesia (misattribution)

the inability to remember when, where or how previously learned info has been acquired, while retaining the factual knowledge

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Deja vu

eerie sense that "Ive experience this before."

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Strategies to improve memory

rehearse repeatedly, make the material meaningful, activate retrieval cues, use mnemonic devices, minimize interference, sleep more and test your knowledge

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Language

can be spoken, written or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

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Phonemes

smallest distinctive sound

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Morphemes

the smallest unit of meaningful sound

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Grammar

a system of structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in a language

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