Things You Remember
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100

Three types of memory retention.

Recall, Recognition, and Relearning.

100

This is the tendency for people to be more confident than they are correct in their beliefs.

`Overconfidence.

100

The smallest unit of meaning.

Morpheme.
100

A biological predisposition to learn associations, such as taste and nausea.

Preparedness

100

One of the memory models/processes where forgetting can occur.

Encoding, Storage, or Retrieval.

200

This type of memory includes short-term memory.

Working memory.

200

A mental image or best example of a category.

Prototype

200

The definition of language.

Our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.

200

That a pigeon can be taught to get food by flapping its wings, but will generally revert to pecking, is an example of this phenomenon.

Instinctive Drift.

200

This occurs when misleading information has corrupted one’s memory of an event. 

Misinformation Effect.

300

The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.

Priming.

300

Phrasing something as "time wasted" instead of "time spent" would be an example of this.

Framing

300

A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.

Grammar not Gramma

300

The evidence showing that violent media leads to increases in violent thinking, feeling, and acting, is an example of the following method of learning.

Observational Learning.
300

The terms that describe the directions of amnesia.

Retrograde (old memories) and Anterograde (new memories)

400

The neural basis for learning.

Long-Term Potentiation.

400

Your friend thinks they are a great driver, but they have had a lot of accidents, tickets, and their car looks like it's 2 days from being scrap metal. They are likely demonstrating this phenomenon.

The Dunning-Krueger Effect

400

This is the name for an impairment of language.

Aphasia

400

The Bobo Doll Experiment included a model in the room, and model on video, and this condition.

Cartoon aggression.

400

A process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being restored again.

Memory Reconsolidation.

"All memory is false"

500

This part of the hippocampus appears to be related to the understanding of space, and increases in size in the brain of London taxi drivers.

The rear of the hippocampus.

500

Last term, a student told me that she had a co-worker show her his new handgun. She informed him that a study had shown that people holding guns are more likely to believe others are holding guns. He responded by saying, "That's fake." He was demonstrating this pattern in thinking.

Confirmation Bias

500

These are the two camps of thought with regards to language as it relates to thought.

Universal Grammar and Linguistic Relativism

500

A child is shown how to open a box by waving his hand over it before opening the latch. The child copies this behavior, including the unnecessary act of waving their hand over the box. This is an example of this phenomenon.

Overimitation 

500

When you forget how, when, or where you learned information - but not the information itself.

Source Amnesia (Misattribution)

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