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A collection of basic knowledge about a concept or entity that serves as a guide to perception, interpretation, imagination, or problem solving.
What is a schema?
The most ideal image of a concept.
What is a prototype?
Organizing information into manegable unites.
What is chunking?
What is the difference of recognition and recall?
Recall- retrieving information without cues
Recognition- identifying correct information with cues
How you measure intelligence by multiple abilitites.
What is the g factor?
Abiliy to focus one's listening attention on a single talker among a mixture of conversations and background noises.
What is the Cocktail Party effect?
Step- by- step process for solving a problem.
What is an algorithm?
The idea that people are more likely to remember the first and last items in a list and are less likely to remember the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
When you have better recall when you're in the same environment as you first learned the information.
What is Context- dependent memory?
Consistent procedures and environments for testing.
What is standardization?
Retinal disparity and convesions are examples of ___.
What is binocular cues?
Name the stages of the memory processing.
encoding-> storage -> retrieval
When you use visualizations of familiar places to help recall information.
What is the Method of Loci?
Graph that shows that time is a significant factor in forgetting.
What is the forgetting curve?
Fixed mindset vs. Growth mindset
Fixed mindset- you think your inteligence is fixes
growth mindset- inteligence is developed through effort
Failure to notice the existence of an unexpected item.
What is inattentional blindness?
What is the difference between echoic and iconic?
echoic- auditory memories
iconic- visual memories
What is the difference between Maintenance rehersal and elaborative rehersal?
Maintenance rehersal- when you repeat information over and over again- short term
Elaborative rehersal- linking new information to meaning or prior knowledge
Pro- active vs. Retroactive
proactive- old information disrupt recall of new information
retroactive- new information disrupts recall of old information
The idea that IQ scores are constantly rising.
What is the Flyyn effect?
What is the difference between Bottom- Up and Top- Down Processing?
Top- Down: Information processing guided by higher- level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations.
Bottom- Up: Analysis that begins with sensory receptors and works up to the brain's inegration of sensory information.
What is the difference between implicit and explicit memories?
implicit- retention of learned skills or classicly conditioned associations
explicit- your facts & experiences that you consciously aware of
What is the difference between retrograde and enterograde amnesia?
retrograde amnesia- when you can't remember anything from the past
anterograde amnesia- cannot form new memories
When you recall misleading information and your memories aren't an exact replica of the event that occured.
What is the misinformation effect?
What is stereotype threat vs. stereotype lift?
stereotype threat- when someone is at risk of confirming a sterotype of their group
stereotype lift- A non- stereotyped group is aware of a group's stereotype and they test better than the stereotype.