PSYC236 Week 12 Lecture Notes

Vocabulary flashcards based on the PSYC236 Week 12 lecture on memory and speech comprehension.

Everyday Memory

Incidental memory that occurs during everyday activities, often influenced by social factors and context.

Galton Cueing Technique

A method used to elicit autobiographical memories by prompting individuals with specific words.

Reminiscence Bump

The phenomenon where individuals, particularly older adults, recall a disproportionately high number of memories from adolescence and early adulthood.

Childhood Amnesia

The inability of adults to recall memories from the earliest years of their life, commonly before age 3.

Self-Memory System

A theoretical model of autobiographical memory that integrates current goals, self-image, and autobiographical knowledge.

Ecosystem Validity

The degree to which research findings can be generalized to real-life contexts.

Top-Down Processing

Cognitive processing that begins with the brain's use of existing knowledge, context, and expectations to interpret sensory information.

Phoneme

The smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.

Cohort Model

A model of speech perception that suggests recognition begins with the first phoneme of a word and activates a set of possible words.

Slips of the Tongue

Errors in speech production where sounds, morphemes, or words are mistakenly switched or misused.

Morphology

The study of the structure and formation of words, including the rules for combining phonemes.

Aphasias

Language disorders resulting from brain injury, affecting speech production or comprehension.