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Dev. Psych
Ch. 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Information-processing approach | involves attention, memory, and thinking |
| Encoding | process by which info gets into memory |
| Ignoring | ability to weed out irrelevant info |
| Meta cognition | cognition about cognition, or "knowing about knowing" |
| Schema theory | theory stating that people mold memories to fit info that already exists |
| True or False | Exercise often helps older adults compensate for decline in processing speed |
| Schemas | mental frame works that organize concepts and info, |
| Selective attention | focusing on relevant aspect of experience while ignoring the irrelevant |
| Divided attention | concentrating on more than one activity at the same time |
| Sustained attention | maintain attention to selected stimulus for a prolonged period of time |
| Executive attention | action planning, allocating attention to goals, error detection and compensation, monitoring progress, dealing w/novel or difficult circumstances |
| Habituation | decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentation |
| Dis habituation | increase in responsiveness after change in stimulation |
| Joint attention | 2 or more individuals focus on the same object or event |
| Memory | encoding- eat storage- soup retrieval- right |
| Implicit memory | memory w/out conscious recollection |
| Maturation | surrounding cerebral cortex, especially formal lobes, makes advances in explicit memory possible |
| Working memory | a mental "workbench" where individuals manipulate and assemble information when making decisions, problem solving, and comprehending written and spoken language |
| Age differences in children's susceptibility to suggestion | |
| Fuzzy trace theory | memory is understood by verbatim memory trace or gist memory representations |
| Tip of the tongue | phenomenon common for all especially older adults |
| Prospective memory | remembering to do something in the future |
| Thinking | manipulating and transforming info in memory in order to reason, reflect, think critically, evaluate ideas, solve problems, or make decisions |
| Critical thinking | thinking reflectively and productively, evaluating evidence |
| Mindfulness | being alert, mentally present, and cognitively flexible |
| True or False | Make better decisions when calm |
| Dual process model | decision making is influenced by analytical and experimental cognitive systems. Systems compete with each other |
| Expertise | extensive, highly organized knowledge and understanding of a particular domain |
| True or False | exercise is linked to improve cognitive thinking |
| Meta memory | self knowledge about memory |
| Theory of mind | awareness of one's own mental processes and mental processes of others |
| Explicit memory | conscious memory of facts and experiences |
| Inter modal perception | the ability to integrate information about two or more sensory modalities, such as vision and hearing |
| Morphological rules | units of meaning involved in word formation |
| Normal distribution | a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve with a majority of the cases failing in the middle of the possible range of scores and few scores appearing toward extremes of the range. |
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