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Cognitive Psych. Test

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decay
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signal-detection theory (SDT)
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decay theory
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multimode theory
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encoding
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dual-code theory
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dichotic presentation
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vigilance
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characteristic features
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converging operations
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search
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knowledge representation
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spreading activation
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amnesia
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infantile amnesia
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parallel distributed processing (PDP) models
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change blindness
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memory
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rehearsal
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a theory of how we detect stimuli that involves four possible outcomes of the presence or absence of a stimulus and our detection or nondetection of a stimulus
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the inability to recall events that happened when we were very young
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refers to how you transform a physical, sensory input into a kind of representation that can be placed into memory
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the use of multiple approaches and techniques to address a problem
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the means by which we retain and draw o our past experiences to use this information in the present
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asserts that information is forgotten becuase of the gradual disappearance, rather than displacement of the memory trace
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belief suggesting that knowledge is represented both in images and in symbols
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the elements of a network
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presenting a different message to each ear
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the form for what you know in your mind about things, ideas, events, and so on that exist outside your mind
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refers to a scan of the environment for particular features- actively looking for something when you are not sure where it will appear
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severe loss of explicit memory
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qualities that describe (chacterize or typify) the prototype but are not necessary for it
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the repeated recitation of an item
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the inability to detect changes in objects or scenes that are being viewed
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proposes that attention is flexible; selection of one message over another message can be made at any of various different points in the course of information processing
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excitation that fans out along a set of nodes within a given network
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aka connectionist models. the handling of very large numbers of cognitive operations at once through a network distributed across incalculable numbers of locations in the brain
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refers to a person's ability to attend to a field of stimulation over a prolonged period, during which the person seeks to detect the appearance of a particular target stimulus of interest
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occurs when simply the passage of time causes an individual to forget
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divided into discrete modules that operate more or less independently of each other
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mental frameworks for representing knowledge that encompass an array of interrelated concepts in a meaningful organization
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what is recalled depends on what is encoded
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the generation and output of a procedure
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when participants engage in conscious recollection
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the attentive cognitive processing of a limited amount of information from the vast amount of information available through the senses, in memory, and through cognitive processes, focus on a small subset of available stimuli
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change in a familiar stimulus that promps us to start noticing the stimulus again
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caused by activity occurring after we learn something but before we are aked to recall that thing; also called retroactive inhibition
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a lessening of attention to a stimulus that is not subject to conscious control
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stores personally experienced events or episodes

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