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| 6642824424 | Encoding | The processing of information into the memory system. | 0 | |
| 6642824425 | Parallel Processing | The processing of several aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain's natural mode of information processing for many functions, including vision. | 1 | |
| 6642824426 | Ebbinghaus Curve | The more you rehearse something, the more likely you are to retain it. |  | 2 |
| 6642824427 | Automatic Processing | unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings | 3 | |
| 6642824428 | Spacing Effect | Massed Practice-Cramming Distrubuted Practice- Manage information better , long term recall. | 4 | |
| 6642824429 | Serial Position Effect | Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list | 5 | |
| 6642824430 | Primacy Effect | the more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series | 6 | |
| 6642824431 | Recency Effect | the more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series | 7 | |
| 6642824432 | Long Term Potentiation | a possible source of the formation of memories; improvement in a neuron's ability to transmit caused by repeated stimulations | 8 | |
| 6642824433 | Storage | Retaining information | 9 | |
| 6642824434 | H.M. Study | Famous case study in psychology who had his hippocampus removed to prevent seizures. Discovered that hippocampus had to do with long term memory. | 10 | |
| 6642824435 | Retrieval | the process of getting information out of memory storage Process of getting information out of memory storage | 11 | |
| 6642824436 | Recall | A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test. | 12 | |
| 6642824437 | Priming | the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory | 13 | |
| 6642824438 | Context Effects | memory is aided by being in the physical location where encoding took place | 14 | |
| 6642824439 | State Dependent Memory | the phenomenon of recalling events encoded while in a particular state of consciousness. (remembering an appointment when youre drowsy, might not remember again unless drowsy) | 15 | |
| 6642824440 | Mood Congruent Memory | The greater likelihood of recalling an item when our mood matched the mood we were in when the event happened. | 16 | |
| 6642824441 | CREB and Glutamate | CREB- Binding protein in our blood that reshapes the synapses Glutamate- Excitatory | 17 | |
| 6642824442 | Atkinson-Shiffrin Model | Encoding- Putting info in Storage- Holding info in Retrieval- Getting info out | 18 | |
| 6642824443 | Sperling Memory Test | Grid with letters Echoic Memory- Sound Iconic Memory- Sight | 19 | |
| 6642824444 | Short Term Memory | 20-60 seconds | 20 | |
| 6642824445 | Long Term Memory | Remember forever (personalization) | 21 | |
| 6642824446 | Working Memory | A system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. | 22 | |
| 6642824447 | Magic Number 7 | We remember about 7 things before we start to forget | 23 | |
| 6642824448 | Episodic Memoy | Memory of autobiographical memory | 24 | |
| 6642824449 | Semantic Memory | Memories of common knowledge. ex-colors | 25 | |
| 6642824450 | Procedural Memory | A type of long-term memory of how to perform different actions and skills. Essentially, it is the memory of how to do certain things. | 26 | |
| 6642824451 | Flashbulb Memory | clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event | 27 | |
| 6642824452 | Explicit Memories | are memories of facts, including names, images and events. They are also called declarative memories. | 28 | |
| 6642824453 | Implicit Memories | Unintentional memories we might not even realize we have | 29 | |
| 6642824454 | Absent-Mindedness | Inattention to detail | 30 | |
| 6642824455 | Transience | Forgetting what occurs with the passage of time | 31 | |
| 6642824456 | Blocking | the temporary inability to remember something that is known "tip of the tongue" | 32 | |
| 6642824457 | Missattribution | Confusing source of information | 33 | |
| 6642824458 | Suggestability | Emotional characteristics where ideas or attitudes of other person are accepted without criticism. | 34 | |
| 6642824459 | Bias | A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific. | 35 | |
| 6642824460 | Persistence | the continual recurrence of unwanted memories | 36 | |
| 6642824461 | Proactive Interference | Previously held knowledge prevents successful retrieval of more newly learned information. | 37 | |
| 6642824462 | Retroactive Interference | The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information | 38 | |
| 6642824463 | Loftus Study | An impairment in memory after exposed to misinformation | 39 | |
| 6642824464 | Concepts | ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events, or activities | 40 | |
| 6642824465 | Prototypes | The most typical example of a particular concept. | 41 | |
| 6642824466 | Heuristic | A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms. | 42 | |
| 6642824467 | Algorithm | A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. | 43 | |
| 6642824468 | Availability Heuristic | estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common | 44 | |
| 6642824469 | Representative Heuristic | judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevent information | 45 | |
| 6642824470 | Insight | a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions--- Sultan the Chimp and Wolfgang Kohler | 46 | |
| 6642824471 | Confirmation Bias | a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence | 47 | |
| 6642824472 | Belief Perseverance | clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited | 48 | |
| 6642824473 | Convergent Thinking | a type of critical thinking in which one evaluates existing possible solutions to a problem to choose the best one Ex. Order of elimination | 49 | |
| 6642824474 | Divergent Thinking | In problem solving, the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions. | 50 | |
| 6642824475 | Fixation | The inability to see a problem from a new perspective; an impediment to problem solving. | 51 | |
| 6642824476 | Mental Set | a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past | 52 | |
| 6642824477 | Functional Fixedness | The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving. | 53 | |
| 6642824478 | Framing | The way a problem is presented | 54 | |
| 6642824479 | Whorf's language determinism | Is the idea that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought | 55 | |
| 6642824480 | Critical Period | an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development | 56 | |
| 6642824481 | Telegraphic Speech | Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - "go car" - using mostly nouns and verbs | 57 | |
| 6642824482 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 58 | |
| 6642824483 | Overgeneralization | The misapplication of grammar rules | 59 |
