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55 Cards in this Set
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Ebbinghaus Major findings |
Forgetting curve Savings in Re-learning |
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Proactive interference |
Old info blocks access to new info |
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Distributed practice |
Baddley believes it is better then mass ; practice broken up into short sessions |
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Patient HM |
Hippocampus removed |
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Amnesic accident HM & Clive |
Procedural memory (waking, talking) stays in tact |
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Serial reproduction |
Sit Bartlet “War of ghosts”; study once & have to reproduce over and over again |
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Flashbulb memory |
Not immune to memory errors. Vivid snapshot emotional arousing |
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Post event- mis info effect |
Mis - info was introduced in prior question |
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Levels of processing (cognitive effect) |
Memory does not transfer into long term ( deep processing / shallow processing |
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Stage model of memory |
More rehearsals you have it go to LTM |
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Broad bent early selection model of attention |
Selected to be attended to ; filtered |
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Cocktail party phenomena |
Focus on particular stimulus while filtering out others |
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Feature integration (process) theory |
Features are registered early to bind object together into a uniform perceptual object |
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Dichotic listening task |
Early selection theory : focus on the attended ear Late selection theory : dear aunt Jane |
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Attenuation (reduce) theory |
Not turning around in a crowd, attention is weakened / context matters |
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Posner cuing paradigm |
Attention is spatially selective and acts like a spotlight |
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Attentional blink |
Do not realize the 2nd target if it appears close in time to the 1st target |
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Unilateral neglect |
Draw only right side unaware of the left (damage to the right parietal lobe ) |
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Receptive field |
Specific area of space, stimulus must be in order for the simple or complex to respond to it. |
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Akinetopsia |
Vision problem - sees static images |
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Optic ataxia |
Hard time locating things in space |
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Consolidation theory (EP supports this theory) |
Remember old memories bc they’ve been fully consolidated and not new |
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Retrograde amnesia |
Loss of memory before injury or disease |
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Anterograde amnesia (HM) |
Loss of ability to create new memories |
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Psychogenic amnesia |
Don’t know who you are (rare) |
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Apperceptive agnosia |
Perception of orientation is impaired, but action of inserting cards is in tact |
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Phineas Gage |
Prefrontal cortex rod accident |
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Structuralism |
Complex conscious experiences broken down into simple elementary components |
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Associationism |
Relationships of two ideas can form because of their similarity in resemblance to each other |
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Behaviorists |
Psychology should only study observable behavior |
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Reaction against behaviorism |
Cognitive revolution |
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Phrenology |
Caused bumps on your skull as you used a function with greater frequency |
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Evidence against phrenology |
Pierre flourens; aggregate field no matter where he made the lesion the animal would recover |
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Fmri |
an indirect measure of neuronal activity |
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Olfactory bulb |
Sends signals to your brain to let you know what scent it |
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Sensation |
The process by which we transform the physical energy from the environment and encode it as neural signals |
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Trichromatic theory |
Explains how the cones in the retina function |
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Opponent process theory |
Ganglion cells function |
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Motion parallex |
Fences move past you, but the sky moves with you |
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Shape constancy of a room |
Illusion, growing or shrinking |
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Divided attention |
Multi- tasking |
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Change blindness |
Unaware of change |
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Visual iconic memory |
The sensory store can hold a lot information for a brief period of time |
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Serial position curve |
Items in the beginning are better remembered then the middle |
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Central executive |
Information that is integrated across time and space and interacts with LTM |
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Method of loci |
Technique of placing each item along a well known route |
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Rationalization ( memory error) |
Information not in the original story |
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Associative strength theory |
Cue is effective if it has occurred frequently with the to be remembered event in the past |
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Mirror reversed star tracing task |
Procedural memory |
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Frontal lobe |
Movement of cognitive processes |
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Parietal lobe |
Sensory lobe / spacial info |
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Temporal lobe |
Memory language |
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Prosopagnosia |
Disorder in recognizing faces |
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Episodic memory |
Personal autobiographical memories |
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Semantic memory |
General knowledge |
