Memories
Alzheimer's disease
Where in the brain are explicit memories processed?
Hippocampus
The inability to retrieve information from one's past due to injury or illness
Retrograde amnesia
Give a correct example of a concept and prototype
Example: Birds --> Crow
The smallest distinctive sound unit in a word
Phoneme
The term for retrieving information not currently in your conscious awareness but was learned at an earlier time
Recall
Where in the brain are implicit memories processed?
The cerebellum
"The old 'stuff' you learned last month is getting in the way of the new 'stuff' you are trying to remember now" -- This is called
Narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution (a multiple-choice exam)
Convergent thinking
Give an example of a morpheme
Example: Readers (s -- smallest unit that carries meaning)
Iconic memory is a memory focused on what type of stimuli?
Visual stimuli
"I could tell you exactly where I was when I found out that Trump won the 2020 election" is an example of what type of memory?
Flash-bulb memory
This occurs when misleading information has distorted one's memory of an event
Misinformation effect
How we present an issue can impact judgements and decisions. What is the term for this idea?
Framing
This is the impairment of language
Aphasia
What's the difference between an explicit memory and an implicit memory?
Explicit -- We are consciously aware of this memory
Implicit -- Learned by classically conditioned associations, independent of conscious recollection
Your tendency to remember the first and last item in a list is shown by this effect
Serial Position Effect
The feeling of, "I've experienced this before"
Deja vu
Clinging to your initial conceptions even after finding out that your conceptions have been discredited
Belief perserverance
This linguist argued that language is a gift from nature and we have a predisposition to learn grammar
Noam Chomsky
Three steps of the human memory system
1. Encode
2. Store
3. Retrieve
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good/bad emotional state
Mood-congruent memory
A faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned
Source Amnesia
Estimating the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to match particular prototypes
Selecting the correct word to convey meaning
Semantics