Carters Review 2

schema

mental framework, includes expectations, knowledge, associations about that category

assimilation

incorporates new experiences, but schema doesn’t change

accommodation

new info changes schema

perceptual set

readiness to perceive something in a certain way based on expectations

selective attention

cocktail party effect, inattentional blindness, change blindness

binocular cues

retinal disparity, convergence

algorithm

systematically testing every possible option

heuristic

mental shortcut, fast but biased

executive functions

mental skills that allow people to set goals, make plans, stay organized

explicit memory

episodic, semantic

implicit memory

procedural and prospective

working memory model

central executive, visuospatial sketched, phonological loop

levels of processing, shallow to deep respectively

structural (looks), phonemic, semantic (meanings)

method of loci

associating pieces of information with specific locations

info grouping

chunking, categorizing, hierchies

serial position effect

primacy, recency

maintainence rehearsal

simple repetition

elaborative rehearsal

connects new info to old

retrograde amnesia

can’t remember old

anterograde amnesia

cannot form new long term

infantile amnesia

inability to remember events form early childhood

recall retrieval

without cues or hints

recognition retrieval ex

multiple choice

metacognition

thinking about how you think

forgetting curve by who

herman ebbinghaus

reasons for retrieval failure

encoding failure, interference, inadequate retrieve

forgetting curve

rate of forgetting slows down as we review more

misinformation effect

memory is distorted by misleading info

imagination infation

thought about so much that we start to think it is real

general intelligence is measured by

g

robert sternburg

triarchic theory

IQ=

mental age/chronological x 100

construct validity

actually measures concept it is testing

reliability

test-retest, spilt-had reliability