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#lpeleap Chapter 7

Cognition

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Acoustic encoding the process of remembering and comprehending something that you hear. Read more: http://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?term=Acoustic+Encoding#ixzz30KZeh6g3
Amnesia a partial or total loss of memory.
Long term potentiation a long-lasting enhancement in signal transmission between two neurons that results from stimulating them synchronously.
Parallel processing the ability of the brain to do many things (aka, processes) at once. For example, when a person sees an object, they don't see just one thing, but rather many different aspects that together help the person identify the object as a whole.
Priming an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus influences a response to another stimulus.
Working memory the part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.
Noam Chomsky Noted for expounding the theory of generative grammar, he also theorized that linguistic behavior is innate, not learned, and that all languages share the same underlying grammatical base.
Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve.
Wolfgang Kohler one of the founders of Gestalt psychology along with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka. He is also famous for his description of insight learning which he tested on animals, particularly chimpanzees.
Elizabeth Loftus American cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory. She has conducted extensive research on the malleability of human memory.
George A. Miller While short-term memory was expected to be limited, its exact limits were not known. In 1956, Miller would quantify its capacity limit in the paper "The magical number seven, plus or minus two".
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