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schema
a preexisting mental
concept that helps people to
organize and interpret
information
script
a schema for an event
Retroactive interference
a phenomenon that occurs when newly learned
information interferes with and impedes the recall of previously learned
information
Proactive interference-
material that was learned earlier disrupts the recall of material that was learned later
Decay theory-
when we learn
something new a neurochemical
memory trace forms, but over time
this trace disintegrates
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
-confident that
we know something, but
cannot pull it out of memory
cognition
way in which information
is processed and manipulated in
remembering, thinking, and knowing
Memory:
Retention of
information or experience over
time
Encoding-
how info gets in
Storage-
where info goes
Retrieval
how info gets out
Selective Attention:
involves
focusing on a specific aspect of
experience while ignoring others
Divided Attention:
involves
concentrating on more than one
activity at the same time
Sustained attention:
is the
ability to maintain attention to
a selected stimulus for a
prolonged period of time
Level of processing:
refers to a
continuum from shallow to intermediate
to deep, with deeper processing
producing better memory
Elaboration
-refers to the formation of a
number of different connections around a
stimulus at any given level of memory
encoding
Self-reference:
relating material to
your own experience
Imagery:
Used mental imagery to recall enormous amounts
of information
Levels of processing Model-
We remember things we spend more
cognitive time and energy processing
Three Box Model/ Information-Processing Model
Memory storage involves three stages that
information passes through before it is stored
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
Sensory Memory:
Holds information from the
world as an exact copy for ½ to 3
seconds
Echoic memory
-auditory
sensory memory 2-4 seconds
Iconic memory
-visual
sensory memory <1sec
Short-term memory/ Working memory:
A limited-capacity memory system
Retained for 10-30 seconds
Rehearsal-
conscious repetition of information
Chunking
-grouping information
Long-term memory:
Relatively permanent type of
memory that stores huge
amounts of information for a
long time
Explicit memory (declarative memory)
conscious recollection of information
Episodic memory-
memories of specific events
Semantic memory-
a person’s knowledge about the world- facts
Implicit memory (non-declarative
memory)
-memory in which behavior
is affected by prior experience without
conscious recollection of that experience
Procedural memory
-involves memory for skills
Priming
-is the activation of
information that people already
have in storage to help them
remember new information better
and faster
concepts
-mental categories that are
used to group objects, events, and
characteristics
superordinate
most general concept
subordinate
most specific concept
Prototype
-emphasizes that when
people evaluate whether a
given item reflects a certain
concept, they compare the
item with the most typical
item in that category and
look for a “family
resemblance” with that
item’s properties
Heuristics
-are such shortcut strategies or
guidelines that suggest a solution to a problem
but do not guarantee an answer
Algorithms-
strategies that guarantee a
solution to a problem
Inductive reasoning
-involves
reasoning from specific observations to
make generalizations
Deductive reasoning
reasoning
from a general case that we know to be
true to a specific instance
Functional fixedness
-occurs when
individuals fail to solve a problem
because they are fixated on a thing’s
usual functions
Availability heuristic
-refers to a
prediction about the probability of an
event based on the ease of recalling or
imagining similar events
Belief bias:
we make illogical conclusions in order to confirm our preexisting beliefs
Belief perseverance:
our tendency to maintain a belief even after the evidence we used to form the belief is contradicted.
framing
an example of
cognitive bias, in which people react to a
particular choice in different ways
depending on how it is presented;
Confirmation bias
-is the tendency to
search for and use information that
supports our ideas rather than refutes
them
Hindsight bias
-our tendency to look
back at an event that we could not
predict at the time and think the
outcome was easily predictable.
Divergent thinking
-thinking that produces
many solutions to the same problems
Convergent thinking
-thinking that produces
the single best solution to a problem
Phonology
-a language's sound system
Morphology-
language’s rules for word formation
Syntax
-a language’s rules for combining words to form acceptable phrases and sentences
Semantics
-the meaning of words and sentences in a particular language
Pragmatics
useful character of language and the ability of language to
communicate even more meaning than is said
Theory of linguistic relativity:
not all cultures share the same words
Language acquisition
devices
Young children possess an innate capacity to
learn and produce speech
overgeneralize-
a child uses a word for too many different cases
underextension
child doesn't use a word for enough particular cases