Cog Psyc Final Test!

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acronym

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spell out a word with each letter signifying a word

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acrostics

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Effective when learning a meaningless set of facts.

Please excuse my dear aunt sally

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bizarre imagery

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When shown a word, r's told p's to imagine something very unusual.

An effective way to learn

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cognitive effort effect

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The more difficult anagrams were remembered better.

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cognitive skills

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part of Procedural memory

The other part is motor skills

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conditioned fear

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When the mouse was shocked through the floor, it eventually froze up before a tone was sounded.

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cued recall

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Recall that is preceded with a primer

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saccade

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wherever the cue appeared, the letter appeared

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antisaccade

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when the cue appeared, the letter appeared elsewhere.

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Verbal fluency task

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how fluent are p's at generating verbal responses.

Tell p's to say words that begin with a certain letter.

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Frontal lobe processing

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Used to assess mental damage

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WMS task

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Best predictor of a wide range of cognitive abilities

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Donder's Subtractive Method

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Used to determine how long it took to engage in different cognitive processes...

Mainly a failure, but Sternberg was interested.

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Sternberg's Additive Method

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Measure p's math speed, measure it and then add in more numbers

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Parallel

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able to compare the probe simultaneously to each word in memory set

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Circularity

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an empty concept that answers its question with the question

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Chunking

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functionally increase elaborative memory

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classic mneumonics

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techniques for improving memory

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Method of loci

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Association of items needed to learn with certain objects in the physical world.

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Peg word

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Use certain words you know very well, with each of those you relate a word that rhymes

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Self-Reference

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How much does this word describe you?

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Self-Generation

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P's who had to read the sentence w/o word bank remembered words better

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Imagery

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P's who see pictures instead of words remember them better

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Picture Superiority Effect

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Concrete > Abstract nouns

Easy to create a mental image for concrete.

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Dual code hypothesis

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Certain stimuli are able to be encoded in various ways, but if you encode it in both ways...it will be stronger

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Organization

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the better the organization, the better the recall

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Material-Induced

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Recognition that items came from categories

Related + Grouped > Related and Ungrouped > Unrelated

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Subjective organization - Multi trial free recall

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Organization is based on a persons point of view

As long as you use an organization, you will remember info well.

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Legacy of LOP

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- Establish rich sets of retrieval cues
- Integrate new info with old
- Embellish (elaborate) info as much as possible

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Self-Generation

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How much does this word describe you?

P's who had to read the sentence w/o word bank remembered words better.

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Imagery

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P's who see pictures instead of words remember them better

Picture Superiority Effect

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Self-Reference

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how much dos this word describe you?

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Picture superiority effect

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Concrete > abstract nouns

Easy to create a mental image for concrete

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Dual Code hypothesis

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Certain stimuli are able to be encoded in various ways, but if you encode it in both ways, it will be stronger

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Organization

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the better the organization, the better the recall

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Material-induced

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recognition that items came from categories.

Related + Grouped > Related + Ungrouped > Unrelated

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Subjective Organization - Multi-trial free recall

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Organization is based on a person's point of view

As long as you use an organization, you will remember info well

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Legacy of LOP

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- Establish rich sets of retrieval cues
- Integrate new info with old
- Embellish (elaborate) info as much as possible

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Explicit memory

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Medial temporal cortex (hippocampus)

Midline Diencephalon (Mammillary Bodies)

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Semantic memory

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the ability to answer general facts

General world knowledge

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Episodic memory

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What were you doing at 6PM yesterday?

Describe the event in which you learned your mothers maiden name

Includes temporal and spatial context

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Semantic or Episodic?

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Both need memory for the rule and the occurrence of stimuli

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Morris Water Maze

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Test explicit memory of rat
Rat placed in tub of water with powder milk and has to find a platform.

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Word lists followed by recognition test. What type of memory is used?

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Episodic

Doesn't ask what the word means.

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Implicit memory

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Various brain areas

Use systematic reaction time task - asks p's about patterns.

Effective RA eliminates systematic bias.

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systematic bias

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any bias that is not random (ie instrumentation)