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Mental set

Prior experiences

Priming

Happens when exposure to certain stimuli influences our decision making

Framing

We tend to make different choices based on wether something is framed as a gain or loss

Gamblers fallacy

Occurs when people believe that past events affect future probabilities

Sunk cost fallacy

Happens when people continue investing time, money into soemthing because they have already invested so much

Divergent thinking

Involves exploring possible solutions to a single problem

Procedural memoruy

Stores information about how to perform tasks

Prospective memory

The ability to remember to do something later

Iconic memory

Visual information that last less than a second

Echoic memory

Auditory information that lasts a few seconds

Structural proccesssing

Processing based on the structure

Phonemic processing

Processing on how it sounds

Semantic processing

Processing with meaning

Maintenance rehearsal

Simple repitition

Autobiographical memory

Memories tied with your life

Retrograde amnesia

Loss of past memories

Anterograde amnesia

Inability to form new memories

Metacognition

Thinking of how you think

Proactive interference

Can’t learn because old stuff get in the way

Retroactive interference

Can’t remember old stuff\ because new stuff gets in the way

Memory consolidation

Details are altered or filled with assumptions

General intelligence

Broad ability that influences performance across different cognitive test