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3. Your parents’ clear, emotional memory of seeing the World Trade Center buildings fall.
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4. Flashbulb
memory
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5. Processing information into your brain…
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6. Encoding
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7. Sensory memory that isn’t rehearsed does this. (so do dead bodies)
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8. Decay
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9. Its capacity is 5 to 9 separate pieces of information
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10. Short-term
Memory
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11. How long iconic memory lasts for…
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12. 200ms, or 2/10 second
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13. This “effect” says it’s better to study 1 hour 4 times than 4 hours in a row
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14. Spacing, or Distributed Practice
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15. If you link what you’re reading to other things you know, you
are using _______ memory to hold
everything in mind at once.
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16. Working Memory
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17. Give an example of both shallow and deep processing.
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Give an example of both shallow and deep processing.
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18. Shallow – visual encoding (how many letters?) Deep – semantic
encoding (Relate the term
to your life)
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19. Before something we hear must first be stored in …
can be encoded into
short-term memory, it
must first be stored in …
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20. Echoic Memory, lasts 3-4 seconds
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21. Memory is improved more by retrieving information than by rereading it
Memory is improved more by retrieving information than by rereading it. This is the
_______ effect.
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22. Testing
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23. If you study a list of items and immediately recall them, you’ll remember which items best, second best, and worst?
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24. (serial position effect)
last, first, middle
(serial position effect)
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25. Organizing items into more manageable units, or an Asian food company
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26. Chunking
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27. One-bun Two-shoe Three-tree… Which mnemonic method?
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28. Peg-word Method
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29. Another term for implicit memory is…
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30. Non-declarative
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31. where you learned. Thus, memory is…
It’s easier to
remember if you recall
where you learned. Thus, memory is…
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32. Context-dependent
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33. When your ex-girlfriend’s birthday interferes with your effort to remember your current girlfriend’s birthday…
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34. Pro-active Interference
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35. Give an example to show the difference between recall and recognition.
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36. Naming the capital of Alaska vs. recognizing it’s Juneau
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37. After new memories are formed, they are strengthened by more firing of the relevant neurons, and these neurons become more sensitive to firing as a result. This is …
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38. Long-term Potentiation
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39. Ebbinghaus learned that if he practiced a list of nonsense syllables (e.g. vox, lep, hoz, etc.) more on Day 1, the next day when he practiced them…
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40. He could relearn them in fewer attempts. (overlearning helps)
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41. Remembering (when drunk) where you hid money when drunk, is an example of …
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42. State-dependence
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43. Name a cognitive skill…
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44. Main Menu

45. Being able to juggle is _______ memory
Being able to juggle is _______ memory. Being able to explain how to begin to learn to juggle is ________ memory.
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46. Non-declarative/Implicit/Motor Skill Declarative/Explicit/Facts
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47. After a head injury, Jim lost his ability to form any new memories for facts or experiences. He damaged his _________ and now has __________ amnesia.
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48. Hippocampus/Frontal lobes
Anterograde
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49. Daily Double!!!
Hermann Ebbinghaus’s famous forgetting curve showed that forgetting of nonsense syllables is initially ______ and then ______.
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50. Fast, Slow (or levels off)
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51. The two brain regions involved in the processing of implicit, non-declarative memories.
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52. Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia
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53. Problem-Solving
Solving Problems
Language
Research
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54. When your car ran poorly last time, new spark plugs helped, so you try that again… and it didn’t help…
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55. Mental Set
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56. Follow my steps and you’ll be okay
Follow my steps and you’ll be okay. It may take longer if you’re not using a computer, but if I’m good, your solution is coming right up …
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57. Algorithm
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58. Thinking the female doctor must be the nurse and the male nurse must be the doctor…
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59. Representative Heuristic
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60. Being more afraid of flying than is warranted because of two recent, well-publicized crashes.
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61. Availability Heuristic
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62. Not realizing that your raincoat could be converted into a flotation device… and drowning
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63. Functional Fixedness
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64. is close to it.
is not.
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65. The prototypical table
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66. If you want to find a solution, it would be best if you searched for evidence that your plan might not work. Try to overcome _______ ________
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67. Confirmation Bias
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68. Answer

69. Framing
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70. Daily Double!!!
The phenomenon of belief perseverance demonstrates that human thinking is flawed in that we tend to form beliefs _______ and change them _______.
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71. With ease
Rarely and with difficulty, even when the evidence against them is clear
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72. Venturesome Personality A Creative Environment
Expertise
Imaginative Thinking
Venturesome Personality
Intrinsic Motivation
A Creative Environment
These lead to…
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73. Creativity
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74. shown that all languages structure. He calls this:
Noam Chomsky has
shown that all languages
share an underlying
structure. He calls this:
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75. Universal Grammar
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76. The first stage of language development, beginning around 4 mos. of age
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77. Babbling
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78. It’s see spot run not run spot see
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79. Syntax
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80. The word “dances” has ____ phonemes and ____ morphemes.
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81. 6, 2
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82. If a child says only “mama” and “dadee” she’s probably ___ year(s)
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83. 1
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84. the game-winning hit in a tee-ball game, but it didn’t happen.
You remember getting
the game-winning hit in a
tee-ball game, but it didn’t happen.
You read it in a story…
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85. Source Amnesia
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86. When events that happen after an experience change the memory for the experience…
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87. Misinformation Effect
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88. your language determines
His theory says that
your language determines
the way you think…
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89. Benjamin Whorf’s Linguistic Determinism Theory
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90. Instead of the availability heuristic, smart thinkers
should use this to determine
risk
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91. The actual statistical probability
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92. Answer According to research, if you don’t learn
the grammar of a language by age __,
you’ll never truly master that language.
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93. 7
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94. Language Comprehension, Temporal Lobe
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95. Wernicke’s
Area
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96. Eureka!!
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97. Insight
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98. Approximate number of morphemes in English
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99. 100,000
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100. Can’t talk right
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101. Aphasia
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102. If convergent thinking is digging the hole deeper, divergent thinking would be …
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103. Digging more holes
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104. Final Jeopardy
University of Tennessee’s Women’s Basketball team may have improved their free throw shooting by practicing…
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105. Mentally