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AP Psychology Unit 07 - Overview
Studying and Building Memories Memory Storage and Retrieval Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Memory Improvement Thinking, Concepts, and Creativity Solving Problems and Making Decisions Thinking and Language
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Studying Memory Memory Extremes of memory
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Studying Memory Memory Models
Encoding Storage Retrieval Parallel processing
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Studying Memory Memory Models: Working Memory
Atkinson and Shiffrin Theory Sensory memory Short-term memory Long-term memory
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Studying Memory Memory Models: Working Memory
Modified version of the three-stage processing model of memory Working memory
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Studying Memory Memory Models: Working Memory
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Building Memories: Encoding Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Versus Automatic Processing
Explicit memory Effortful processing Automatic processing Implicit memory
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Magic number is _____ Plus or minus ____
Building Memories: Encoding Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories: Capacity of Short-Term and Working Memory Magic number is _____ Plus or minus ____
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Building Memories: Encoding Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories: Effortful Processing Strategies Chunking
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Mnemonics Define Examples
Building Memories: Encoding Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories: Effortful Processing Strategies Mnemonics Define Examples
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Building Memories: Encoding Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories: Effortful Processing Strategies Hierarchies
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Overlearning Spacing effect Testing effect
Building Memories: Encoding Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories: Distributed Practice Overlearning Spacing effect Testing effect
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Shallow processing Deep processing
Building Memories: Encoding Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories: Levels of Processing Shallow processing Deep processing
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Making material meaningful
Building Memories: Encoding Dual-Track Memory: Effortful Processing and Explicit Memories: Making Material Personally Meaningful Making material meaningful Self-reference effect
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Memory Storage Retaining Information in the Brain
True or False? Memories are NOT stored in one part of the brain.
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Memory Storage Retaining Information in the Brain: Explicit-Memory System: The Frontal Lobes and Hippocampus Hippocampus
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Cerebellum Basal Ganglia Infantile amnesia
Memory Storage Retaining Information in the Brain: Implicit-Memory System: The Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia Cerebellum Basal Ganglia Infantile amnesia
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Memory Storage The Amygdala, Emotions, and Memory
Flashbulb Memories
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Memory Storage Synaptic Changes
Aplysia Long-term potentiation
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Memory Storage
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Retrieval: Getting Information Out Measuring Retention
Recall Recognition Relearning
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Retrieval: Getting Information Out Retrieval Cues: Priming
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Retrieval: Getting Information Out Retrieval Cues: Context-Dependent Memory
Context effects
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State dependent memory
Retrieval: Getting Information Out Retrieval Cues: State-Dependent Memory State dependent memory Mood congruent memory
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Serial position effect
Retrieval: Getting Information Out Retrieval Cues: Serial Position Effect Serial position effect Recency effect Primacy effect
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Forgetting Forgetting and the Two-Track Mind
Anterograde amnesia Retrograde amnesia
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Forgetting Encoding Failure
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Forgetting Storage Decay
Ebbinghaus curve
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Forgetting Retrieval Failure
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Forgetting Retrieval Failure: Interference
Proactive interference Retroactive interference
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Forgetting Retrieval Failure: Motivated Forgetting
Self-serving personal histories Repression
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Memory Construction Errors Misinformation and Imagination Effects
Loftus memory studies Misinformation effect
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Memory Construction Errors Source Amnesia
Déjà vu
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Memory Construction Errors Discerning True and False Memories
Memory studies Children eyewitness recall
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Memory Construction Errors Repressed or Constructed Memories of Abuse?
Areas of agreement
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Improving Memory How?
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Thinking and Concepts Cognition Concepts Prototypes
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Creativity Creativity Convergent thinking Divergent thinking
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Creativity Sternberg’s five components of creativity
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Creativity Ways to boost creativity
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Problem Solving: Strategies and Obstacles
Algorithms Heuristic Insight Confirmation bias Mental set
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Problem Solving: Strategies and Obstacles
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Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments
Intuition
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The Representative Heuristic
Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments The Representativeness Heuristic The Representative Heuristic
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The Availability Heuristic
Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments The Availability Heuristic The Availability Heuristic
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Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments Overconfidence
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Belief perseverance Framing
Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments Belief Perseverance and Framing Belief perseverance Framing
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Forming Good and Bad Decisions and Judgments The Perils and Powers of Intuition
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Introduction Language
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Language Structure Phoneme Morpheme English about ______ phonemes
Learning another language’s phonemes Morpheme Includes:
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Language Structure Grammar Semantics Syntax
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Language Development Receptive language Productive language
Babbling stage One-word stage Two-word stage Telegraphic speech
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Language Development Explaining Language Development
Chomsky: Inborn Universal Grammar Language acquisition device Universal grammar
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Language Development Explaining Language Development
Statistical Learning and Critical Periods Statistical learning Critical (sensitive) period
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The Brain and Language Aphasia Broca’s Area Wernicke’s Area
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Language and Thought Language Influences Thinking
Whorf’s linguistic determinism Bilingual advantage
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Language and Thought Language Influences Thinking
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