CIDERS
Combining words and visuals to better understand and remember information.
What is dual coding?
The brain's control center.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Animals that are better than humans at remembering locations of many numbers on a screen.
What are chimpanzees?
Seeking out information that aligns with what we already believe, while ignoring evidence to the contrary.
What is confirmation bias?
The minimum score on Hare's Psychopathy checklist to be considered a psychopath.
What is 30?
Practicing bringing information to mind by testing what you can recall without using notes or other resources.
What is retrieval practice?
The ability to exert cognitive control.
What is willpower?
Type of animal that tricked meerkats into thinking there's a predator only to scare them away and take their food.
What is bird? (Drongo bird)
Thinking you did well on your exam because you used your lucky pencil.
What is (an example of) illusory correlation?
When a drug is used habitually and in larger amounts.
What is dependence?
Shuffling all of your flashcards before quizzing yourself.
What is interleaving?
Mental discomfort due to conflicting ideas.
What is cognitive dissonance?
An animal that has the intelligence level of a 7 year old kid.
What is a crow?
When individuals with strong opinions perceive neutral or balanced media coverage as biased against their own views.
What is hostile media effect?
The factors that influence how birds find food, select mates, and survive in their environment
What are selective pressures?
Spreading out studying over a long period of time rather than cramming.
What is spaced retrieval?
Method for remembering many things in our lives through the process of mental imagery and navigational processing.
What is a memory palace?
Greek name for animal that was able to open jars despite never seeing them in the wild.
What is headfoot?
When we judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily we can recall examples of it.
What is availability heuristic?
Reflexes controlled by the brainstem e.g, gag reflex.
What are cranial reflexes?
All of the CIDERS study skills.
What is Concrete examples, Interleaving, Dual coding, Elaboration, Retrieval practice and Spaced retrieval?
Two main regions of the prefrontal cortex.
What is the DLPFC and vmPFC?
The process by which octopus arms can "think" for themselves.
What is decentralized control?
Illusion where people see patterns, particularly familiar shapes or faces, in random stimuli.
What is paredolia?
All of the stages of addiction (6).
What are initial use, abuse, tolerance, dependence, addiction and relapse.