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100

This period occurs in-between the reminiscence bump and the period of recency

What is the period of forgetting

100

Miriam witnessed a robbery and is now being shown photos of potential suspects all together at the same time.

What is a simultaneous lineup?

100

Furniture would be hard to create a specific definition for because it is this type of concept

What is an abstract concept?

100

These are the smallest meaningful unit of language

What are morphemes?

100

This is when our eyes briefly pause while reading

What is a fixation?

200

If I ask a family member to tell me a memory related to the word "mountain," then a story related to "school" I am making use of a modified version of this technique:

What is the cue-word approach?

200

This type of lineup is viewed as the better option, associated with fewer incorrect identifications

What is a sequential lineup

200

All humans breathe, but if an object breathes it is not automatically a human. That's because breathing is an example of this for the category of humans:

What is a necessary feature?

200

An example of this is that a couch, table, and dresser are more common types of furniture than a wardrobe, stool, or grill.

What is the typicality effect?

200

An example of this is if my eyes are focused on one letter of a word, but I can still extract meaning from a few letters to the left and several letters to the right of that point

What is perceptual span?

300

If someone asks an older adult "tell me your life story," people in the U.S. often say where they grew up, where they went to college, who they married, if they have children, and their first career, which illustrates this explanation of the reminescence bump.

What is the life script account

300

Miriam is on a vacation and just tried all sorts of delicious food. Unfortunately the next day she didn't feel very good, and currently remembers all of the food as less enjoyable than it actually was.

What is bias?

300

An example of this model would be if I look at a new object, realize that it's a close match to my idealized version of the average "lamp," and then categorize the new object as a lamp. 

What is the prototype view?

300

This model of speech perception says that we use prior knowledge and is supported by the phonemic restoration effect

What is the TRACE model

300

The category of games has a lot of variability in it. This model of categorization can best explain how we still correctly classify an unusual game as a game. 

What is exemplar view?

400

When Charmain was in high school, she started really figuring out her likes and dislikes, her career interests, and her goals in life. If Charmain shares a lot of memories from this time in her life it would be consistent with this explanation of the reminiscence bump.

What is identity formation account?

400

Viewing a stop sign and then being asked about a yield sign would be an example of this SPECIFIC concept:

What is contradictory misinformation?

400

This model of categorization cannot account for typicality effects

What is the classical view?

400

When we are excited and talking fast an example of this mistake might be saying "the green leen" instead of "green lawn"

What is a perseveration error?

400

When reading "Miners refuse to work after death" we often originally interpret it incorrectly because it is an example of this

What is a garden path sentence?

500

As a two-year-old, we don't encode as many details into our memories and they are more susceptible to forgetting. But as we continue to develop we encode more details, use language, and view these as events that we experienced, which makes these memories easier to access. 

What is the complementary process view?

500

According to the source monitoring framework, this type of error can explain the DRM effect:

What is a reality monitoring error?

500

An example of this model would be if a look at a new object, realize that it has some similarities to several specific books I have seen before, and categorize this object as a "book."

What is exemplar view?

500

The cohort model is this type of model, indicating that perception is driven by sensory info

What is a bottom-up processing model?

500

An example of this is that when a person reads the sentence "a deplorable leader," they will fixate longer on leader than if they had read "a bad leader."

What is the spillover effect?

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