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42 Cards in this Set
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Memory |
Process that are used to squire, store, retain and later retrieve info |
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Encoding |
Changing info to a usable form |
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Sensory memory |
Earliest stage of memory in for sorted briefly |
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Short term memory |
Info we are currently aware of or thinking about |
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Long term memory |
The continuing storage of info |
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Declarative memory |
Knowledge about what things are in the world |
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Procedural memory |
Knowledge about how |
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Episodic memoru |
Time stamped memory |
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Semantic memory |
Lost time referance |
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Implicit memory |
Info enclosed during an episode is expressed w/o deliberate recollection |
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Explicit memory |
Memory used to recall specific events |
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Clustering |
Memory technique used to organize info into groups |
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Leveling |
Making story simpler |
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Sharpening |
Overemphasizing certain details |
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Assimilating |
Changing details to fit ones own personal background or knowledge base |
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Misinformation effect |
Altering people's responses based on misleading questions |
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Misinformation accpetance |
Info in post event questions is accepted in place of what is actually seen |
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Source confusion |
People sometimes have difficulty ID the actual source of memory being recalled |
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Imagination inflation |
Confidence increases when the event has been imagined |
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Trace decay theory |
Forgetting occurs as a result of automatic fading of the memory trace |
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Proactive interference |
Occurs when you can't learn a new task because of an old task that had been learned |
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Retroactive interference |
Occurs when you forget a previously learned task due to learning a new task |
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Motivated forgetting |
Actively working to forget memories especially those of traumatic or disturbing events or experiences |
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Heuristic |
A general problem solving strategy that may or may not yield a successful outcome |
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Anchoring |
Initial data will almost always anchor subsequent thoughts regardless of their accuracy |
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Status quo |
Automatically has an advantage over every other alternatives |
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Sunk cost |
We tend to make choices in a way that allows us to justify our past choices |
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Confirming evidence |
Leads us to seek out information that supports our instinct while avoiding information that contradicts our intuition |
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Framing |
Pairs of alternatives are equal they have simply been outlined in different ways |
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Conformity |
Other people's actions do heavily influenced ours |
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Considence |
An event is not only possible but is likelihood increases to a point of becoming almost inevitable |
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Recall |
We analyze information based on experience on what we can remember from it |
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Superiority |
People have much inflated views of themselves |
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intrinsic motivation |
Desire to do something because it is enjoyable |
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Extrinsic motivation |
The desire to do something because of an external reward |
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Winers attribution theory |
The way which we strive to maintain our positive self image |
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Incentive theory |
People are motivated to do things because in of external reward |
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Socio biological |
Study of genetic and evolutionary basis of behavior in all organisms |
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Instinct theory |
People try to survive and that any quality increases survival will become genetically based |
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Drive reduction theory |
Internal states of arousal or tension which must be reduced |
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Arousal theory |
We are driven to maintain a certain level of arousal in order to feel comfortable |
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Expectancy value theory |
There are expectations as well as values or believe that affect subsequent behavior |