COGNITIVE PROCESSES
ENCODING
COGNITIVE LOAD
HUMAN MEMORY
KNOWLEDGE AND CONTROL
100
The process of constantly focusing on a stimuli
What is ATTENTION
100
The process of forming mental pictures of an idea
What is IMAGERY
100
Ability to perform mental operations with little awareness or conscious effort
What is AUTOMATICITY
100
Sensory that briefly holds incoming stimuli from the environment until processed
What is SENSORY MEMORY
100
Our awareness and control over our cognitive processes
What is METACOGNITION
200
Memory strategies that create associations that don't exist naturally
What is MNEMONIC DEVICES
200
Strategy that involves the clustering of related items of content into categories that show relationships
What is ORGANIZATION
200
Mentally combining separate items into a larger more meaningful unit
What is CHUNKING
200
Repositories that holds information, sometimes in a raw state, sometimes in a meaningful form
What is MEMORY STORES
200
Our knowledge and control over our memory strategies
What is METAMEMORY
300
The process of representing information in long-term memory
What is ENCODING
300
Involves activating prior relevant knowledge so that new knowledge can be connected to it
What is SCHEMA ACTIVATION
300
Using verbal explanations combined with visual representations
What is DISTRIBUTING PROCESSING
300
Our permanent information store
What is LONG TERM MEMORY
300
Our knowledge and control over our ability to pay attention
What is META-ATTENTION
400
The process people use to find meaning in stimuli
What is PERCEPTION
400
Increases the meaningfulness of new information by connecting it to existing knowledge
What is ELABORATION
400
The three primary ways to reduce cognitive load
What is CHUNKING, AUTOMATICITY, AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
400
The store that holds information as people process and try to make sense of it
What is WORKING MEMORY
400
Drinking coffee before class to stay awake and study better is an example of what?
What is METACOGNITION
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