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Charness and Dijkstra
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found that public places have terrible lighting
- not sufficient for elderly ppl |
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Aging
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Process of getting older, including physical, cognitive, and emotional changes
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Baumrind's Parenting Styles
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Authoritarian - value obedience and exert lots of control, punishment
Authoritative - Control, but gives reasons and explain why Indulgent/Permessive - most tolerant, less likely to punish or use discipline Indifferent/Uninvolved - parents just ignore the kids |
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Baillargeon's "Car Study"
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Babies see track for car with a curtain covering part of it
Baby sees... 1. Possible 2. Impossible - babies stare longer at impossible |
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Habituation
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Staring at something for a shorter time b/c of its familiarity
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Charness and Dijkstra
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found that public places have terrible lighting
- not sufficient for elderly ppl |
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Aging
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Process of getting older, including physical, cognitive, and emotional changes
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Baumrind's Parenting Styles
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Authoritarian - value obedience and exert lots of control, punishment
Authoritative - Control, but gives reasons and explain why Indulgent/Permessive - most tolerant, less likely to punish or use discipline Indifferent/Uninvolved - parents just ignore the kids |
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Baillargeon's "Car Study"
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Babies see track for car with a curtain covering part of it
Baby sees... 1. Possible 2. Impossible - babies stare longer at impossible |
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Habituation
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Staring at something for a shorter time b/c of its familiarity
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Vygotsky's Learning Theory
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Zone of Proximal Development- when a child can't do something by herself, but can with help (this is were the most learning takes place!!)
Scaffolding- providing support as a child learns *Culture develops different goals, ways of thinking, and knowledge |
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Victor: Itard's "Wild Boy"
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Philosophers- does society corrupt ppl
- Nobel savage Victor was found in the woods of France in 1800 Never developed: -More than 1-2 words -Sexual drive -Manners Legacy of Victor: Development Psych. |
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Tversky and Kahnerman's Disaster Questions
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Major fire in building:
Plan A - 100% chance to save 200 ppl or Plan A- 100% chance 400 ppl die Framing Effects: Depending on how you frame a question, either "losses" or "gains" are presented to ppl. Loss Aversion: Tendency to fear negative outcomes more than value gains of positive ones. |
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Recall
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Requires you to reproduce information from memory
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Recognition
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Requires you to recognize the information if presented
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Relearing
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Measures time saved when learning information again
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Ebbinghaus
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Conducted the 1st studies on human memory
Made himself memorize nonsense syllables until recited perfectly Waited, then relearned *Found that most forgetting happened in the first 2 days |
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Power law of Forgetting
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Rubin & Wenzel
log(p)= a - B(log(t)) p= # of items recalled t= time since studied |
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Decay
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Forgetting due to time
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Long-term memory
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Involves association items in memory
-Based on meaning -Something is meaningful if it can be related to something else in memory -Retrieval depends on retrieval cues -Anything meaningful that's related to the target |
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Miller
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Chucking
We expand capacity of our short-term memory by chunking |
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Chunking
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well-learned, meaningful unit of information
- "CIA" is a chunk!! - Have capacity of 7 + or - chunks |
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Attention
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Mechanism that selects information from sensory or LTM and brings it into STM
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STM
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Selecting & Encoding
-Some information is selected in sensory memory...not all is processed b/c attention is limited in capacity -Then information can be encoded (transferred to another memory stage) |
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Sperling's Experiment
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Showed 3x3 matrices of letters for 50 ms
-Full Report: ppl could only recall 4 to 5 -Partial Report: ppl got virtually all right from particular row. Memory starts to fade after 3!! |
