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Memory
General
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
LTMem
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Your parents’ clear, emotional
memory of seeing the World Trade
Center buildings fall.
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Flashbulb
memory
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Processing
information into your
brain…
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Encoding
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Sensory memory that isn’t rehearsed
does this. (so do dead bodies)
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Decay
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Its capacity is 5 to
9 separate pieces of
information
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Short-term
Memory
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How long iconic
memory lasts for…
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200ms, or 2/10
second
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This “effect” says it’s
better to study 1 hour
4 times than 4 hours in
a row
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Spacing, or
Distributed
Practice
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If you link what you’re reading to
other things you know, you
are using _______ memory to hold
everything in mind at once.
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Working Memory
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Daily Double!!!
Give an example of both
shallow and deep processing.
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Shallow – visual encoding
(how many letters?)
Deep – semantic
encoding (Relate the term
to your life)
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Before something we hear
can be encoded into
short-term memory, it
must first be stored in …
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Echoic Memory, lasts
3-4 seconds
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Memory is improved
more by retrieving
information than by
rereading it. This is the
_______ effect.
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Testing
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If you study a list of items and
immediately recall them, you’ll
remember which items best, second
best, and worst?
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last, first,
middle
(serial position
effect)
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Organizing items into
more manageable
units, or an Asian
food company
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Chunking
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One-bun
Two-shoe
Three-tree…
Which mnemonic method?
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Peg-word Method
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Another term for
implicit memory is…
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Non-declarative
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It’s easier to
remember if you recall
where you learned.
Thus, memory is…
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Context-dependent
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When your exgirlfriend’s birthday
interferes with your
effort to remember
your current girlfriend’s
birthday…
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Pro-active
Interference
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Give an example to show the
difference between recall and
recognition.
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Naming the capital of
Alaska vs. recognizing
it’s Juneau
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After new memories are
formed, they are
strengthened by more firing
of the relevant neurons, and
these neurons become more
sensitive to firing as a result.
This is …
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Long-term Potentiation
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Ebbinghaus learned that if he
practiced a list of nonsense
syllables (e.g. vox, lep, hoz,
etc.) more on Day 1, the next
day when he practiced them…
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He could relearn them
in fewer attempts.
(overlearning helps)
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Remembering (when drunk) where
you hid money when drunk, is an
example of …
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State-dependence
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Name a cognitive skill…
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Being able to juggle is _______
memory. Being able to explain how
to begin to learn to juggle is
________ memory.
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Non-declarative/Implicit/Motor Skill
Declarative/Explicit/Facts
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After a head injury, Jim lost his ability to
form any new memories for facts or
experiences. He damaged his _________
and now has __________ amnesia.
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Hippocampus/Frontal lobes
Anterograde
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Daily Double!!!
Hermann Ebbinghaus’s famous forgetting curve
showed that forgetting of nonsense syllables is
initially ______ and then ______.
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Fast, Slow (or
levels off)
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The two brain regions involved in
the processing of implicit, nondeclarative memories.
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Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia
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Problem-Solving
Solving Problems
Language
Research
Ouch!!
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FINAL JEOPARDY
When your car ran poorly
last time, new spark plugs
helped, so you try that
again… and it didn’t help…
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Mental Set
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Follow my steps and you’ll be okay.
It may take longer if you’re not
using a computer, but if I’m good,
your solution is coming right up …
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Algorithm
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Thinking the female doctor must be
the nurse and the male nurse must be
the doctor…
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Representative
Heuristic
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Being more afraid of
flying than is
warranted because
of two recent, wellpublicized crashes.
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Availability
Heuristic
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Not realizing that your
raincoat could be converted
into a flotation device… and
drowning
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Functional
Fixedness
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is close to it.
is not.
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The prototypical
table
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If you want to find a
solution, it would be
best if you searched for
evidence that your plan
might not work. Try to
overcome _______
________
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Confirmation Bias
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Framing
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Daily Double!!!
The phenomenon of belief
perseverance demonstrates that
human thinking is flawed in that we
tend to form beliefs _______ and
change them _______.
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With ease
Rarely and with
difficulty, even when
the evidence against
them is clear
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Expertise
Imaginative Thinking
Venturesome Personality
Intrinsic Motivation
A Creative Environment
These lead to…
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Creativity
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Noam Chomsky has
shown that all languages
share an underlying
structure. He calls this:
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Universal Grammar
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The first stage of language
development, beginning
around 4 mos. of age
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Babbling
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It’s see spot run not
run spot see
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Syntax
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The word “dances” has ____
phonemes and ____ morphemes.
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6, 2
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If a child says only
“mama” and “dadee”
she’s probably ___
year(s)
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1
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You remember getting
the game-winning hit in a
tee-ball game, but it didn’t happen.
You read it in a story…
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Source Amnesia
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When events that
happen after an
experience change the
memory for the
experience…
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Misinformation
Effect
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His theory says that
your language determines
the way you think…
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Benjamin Whorf’s
Linguistic
Determinism
Theory
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Instead of the availability
heuristic, smart thinkers
should use this to determine
risk
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The actual
statistical
probability
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According to research, if you don’t learn
the grammar of a language by age __,
you’ll never truly master that language.
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7
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Language Comprehension, Temporal Lobe
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Wernicke’s
Area
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Eureka!!
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Insight
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Approximate number
of morphemes in
English
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100,000
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Can’t talk right
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Aphasia
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If convergent thinking
is digging the hole
deeper, divergent
thinking would be …
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Digging more
holes
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Final Jeopardy
University of Tennessee’s
Women’s Basketball team
may have improved their
free throw shooting by
practicing…
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Mentally