Condition And Learning L: Last

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What is one possibility for high intelligence?

Proof:

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Excellent working memory

High correlation with verbal SAT scores

N-Back training increased ability in task as well as general intelligence

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What is the defining activity of the Central Executive?

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Manipulation of remembered information

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What tests controlled updating of short-term memory?

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N-back task, self-ordered search

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What does the tower of Hanoi test?

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Setting goals and planning

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What does the Wisconsin Sorting Task test?

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Task switching

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What does the stroop task test?

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Response inhibition and Stimulus attention

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What area of the brain is thought to play a key role in working memory?

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Prefrontal Cortex

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Dysexecutive Syndrome

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Damage to the PFC that causes a decrease in working memory and executive function

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Neurons of the ______ fire while memories are being maintained in working memory

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DLPFC (Delay neurons)

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Different delay neurons seem to do what?

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Encode different memory locations

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Imaging studies suggest human DLPFC also shows.... during working memory tasks

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delay-specific activity

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Within the PFC, different areas seem to

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support different aspects of working memory

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What part of the PFC supports the CE?

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DLPFC

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What part of the PFC supports storage? What else?

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VLPFC supports active maintenance of auditory (left) and visual (right) information

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Where is object and location memory stored?

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Right posterior cortical areas

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Where is verbal information stored

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Left posterior cortical and speech areas

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Goals may be represented from

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Anterior to Posterior axis of the PFC

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What is the nature of PFC interactions with Parietal Lobe?

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Storage

Coordination

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Retrieval of long term memories seems to depend on the

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DLPFC

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Retrieval of past memories requires activation of

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DLPFC

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Two main symptoms of Schizo.

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1.Poor working memory, especially CE

2. Altered frontal lobe function, especially DLPFC

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2 major ideas of concept theory

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1. Associative Theory

2. Cognitive processes

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Associative theory

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Argues that concept learning is just discrimination training

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Cognitive processes theory

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Hypothesis testing

win-stay loss-shift strategy

Can be combined with associative theory

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Semantic networks model

Related concepts are...

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Brain makes connections between concepts

Nearer to each other

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Collins and Loftus model

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Network model

No hierarchy

Variation in link lengths to account for typicality effects

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Your brain is a cognitive ____

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Miser, meaning it has a tendency to form schemas

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Availability Heuristic

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Tendency to base a judgment on the ease which which one can bring something to mind

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Representative Heuristic

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Tendency to presume that someone or something belongs to a particular group if it resembles a typical group member

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What is the problem of the Representative Heuristic

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Base rate fallacy

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What is a mental set?

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persistence in using strategies that have worked in the past

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Fixation

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An inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective. Can be as seen adding a false constraint: a matchbox can only be used for matches

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Approximately what % of students are incremental learners?

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40%

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Growth Mindset vs. Fixed mindset

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Most basic abilities can be developed through hard work and dedication vs. believing your intelligence and talent are simply fixed traits