Sensation and Perception
Taking in sensory information
Sensation
Our script of the world
Schema
Information converted for storage
Encoding
Non-declarative memory. Doesn't require explicit recollection
Implicit
The tendency to seek information that supports one's existing beliefs.
Confirmation bias
How we interpret sensory information
Perception
Changing existing information when new information does not fit our existing schema
Accomodation
Information retained in memory
Storage
Long-term memory involved in the performance of different actions and skills.
Procedural
The "I knew it all along" belief.
Hindsight bias
Our limitation to the amount of stimuli we notice in our environment
Selective attention
Where individuals justify or distort their beliefs to fit their schema
Info retrieved from memory
Retrieval
Using a stimulus like a word or image to change someone's behavior. Memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences a response.
Priming
You expect the worst.
Catastrophizing
Processing tendency to "fill-in-the-gaps"
Top-down
Fitting new information into existing schemas without changing the schema itself
Assimilation
Retention of info for a short amount of time
Short term memory
General knowledge about the world. Explicit
Semantic
You see a constant negative pattern based on one event.
Overgeneralization
Our ability to detect the difference between two stimuli
Just noticeable difference
These aspects influence and or shape one's schema
Gender, culture, age, experiences
Memory aids that use patterns or acronyms.
Mnemonics
Two types of implicit memory
Priming and Procedural
I failed once. I'm so bad at everything.
All-or-nothing distortion