Memory
The memory bias in which we remember things that support our opinions more than things that don't
What is confirmation bias?
The two components of lateral thinking
What are convergent thinking (logic) and divergent thinking (creativity)?
The stage of life that developmental psychologists study
What is the entire lifespan (or any/all stages)?
A type of model that cares about doing the exact same thing as the target organism would do in the exact same way as the target organism would do it
What is a process theory?
A type of science communication that presents information as graphics
What is an infographic?
The part of the brain associated with working memory
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The perspective that human reasoning is not actually intended to be working towards logic, even if we sometimes look like we're being logical
What is the argumentative reasoning perspective on cognition?
The two types of differences that work together to shape a specific person's developmental trajectory
What are individual differences and cultural differences?
The approach to AI incorporates principles of embedded, embodied, and situated cognition
Opportunities for action with an object by a specific organism
What are affordances?
The theory of memory that suggests that emotional intensity plays a large role in what we remember
What is the arousal theory of memory?
Two research methods that scientists can use to study the way that thinking unfolds over time
What are mouse-tracking and eye-tracking?
The physical development milestone that allows developing infants to produce more language-like babbling because of changes to their respiratory and articulatory systems
What is unsupported sitting?
An example of the violation of this ethical principle would be if an online organization, service, or company does not fully explain to users how their data will be used for research purposes
What is the Belmont principle of respect for persons?
What is prospective memory?
The "sin" of memory that occurs when we don't pay attention to something
What is absent-mindedness?
Examples of this multifaceted type of cognition include the way that our leg length determines whether we see a staircase as climbable, the way that we structure our environment to reduce memory load (like having a certain place for our keys), and the way that our social settings shape what is acceptable behavior (like yelling in a sports stadium versus a classroom)
What is embedded, embodied, and situated cognition?
The name for the period of neural development in which neurons grow a huge number of axons to connect to many other neurons
What is neural blooming?
An example of this kind of cognitive model can be found in the formal language used to describe most psychological theories that we have studied this semester
What is a verbal-conceptual model?
The four traditional steps of prospective memory
What are formation, maintenance, initiation, and execution?
The researcher whose forgetting curve shows the progression of the memory sin of transience over time
Who is Ebbinghaus?
The separate (or distinct) types of intelligence supported by the research of Hampshire, Highfield, Parkin, and Owen
What are reasoning, short-term memory, and verbal?
An example of this research method would include analyzing transcripts of political speeches over time to see how different speaking styles correlate with persuasiveness
What is corpus analysis?
The principle underlying the study of group- or society-level trends by analyzing data from many people, without focusing on the specific patterns of individual people
What is the scale cascade thesis?
Who is Florence Nightingale?