Cog Psych Midterm 2 Book

Front 1

Retrieval paths

Back 1

Paths that help you travel from one memory to the next until you reach the target material

Front 2

Context dependent learninf

Back 2

Goddon and braddely. Remember better if in the same context (diving)

Front 3

Context reinstatement

Back 3

Strategy of recreating the thoughts and feelings of the learning episode even if your in a different place

Front 4

encoding specifity

Back 4

what you encode is specific with the stimulus's context (the word that's not shown even though all other words relate to it)

Front 5

subthreshold activation

Back 5

activation levels below the response threshold

Front 6

spreading activation

Back 6

process through which each node activates and fires

Front 7

lexical decision task

Back 7

participants shown string of words on a computer screen, respond yes if word and no if not word--meyer and schvaneveldt

Front 8

semantic priming

Back 8

two words in the pair are related in meaning and measures response time for yes or no

Front 9

source memory

Back 9

don't have any recollection of the source of your current knowledge--depends on connections we've already made

Front 10

remember/know distinction

Back 10

pressing one button to indicate if they actually recall the episode of encountering the particular time and pressing a differenbutton for know

Front 11

word stem completion

Back 11

participants given three or four letters and must produce a word with the beginning, more likely to say a word they've encountered recently

Front 12

processing pathway

Back 12

the sequence of detectors and the connections between detectors that the activation flows through in recognizing a specific stimulus

Front 13

processing fluency

Back 13

the speed and ease with which the pathway will carry activation

Front 14

intrusion errors

Back 14

errors in which knowledge intrudes into the remembered event

Front 15

DRM procedure

Back 15

procedure in which person is given list of words that relate to one word but one word is not said

Front 16

brewer and treyens

Back 16

schematic knowledge--people saw bookcases in the office when there were none

Front 17

decay

Back 17

one explanation for forgetting, with passage of time, memories can fade or erode

Front 18

interference theory

Back 18

one explanation for forgetting, new learning interferes with older learning

Front 19

retrieval failure

Back 19

one explanation for forgetting

Front 20

TOT phenomenon

Back 20

tip of the tongue--term for when retrieval is partial

Front 21

baddley and hitch

Back 21

rugby players asked to recall teams they played over the course of the season--found passage of time doesn't matter, but the number of intervening events