psych 1 unit 2

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Created Jan 8, 2012
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cortex
 
the outside, storage of long term memory, working memory
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hippocampus
 
saves new memory
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cerebellum
 
muscle memory how to do stuff
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amygdala-
 
 emotion component of memories
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sensory memory
 
last only about a secound iconic - echoic
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iconic
 
visual sensory memory
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echoic
 
sensory memory you hear
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short term memory
 
type of memory that last about 30 sec and is wiped out by new info
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encoding
 
prosess by which info enters long term memory
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long term memory
 
remember for long time evn forever
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retreval
 
information is taken out of long term memory to be used (a process)
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storage
 
where you keep memories
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procedural
 
memory of how to do things
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sematic
 
memory of facts and concepts
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episodic
 
memory of event in ones own life
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attention
 
The process by which information is transferred from sensory to short-term memory.
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working
 
another name for short term memory
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recall
 
tov recite somthing but no information
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recogniton
 
you can see a list and have to recognize certine things (7 dwarves)
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primary effect
 
1st items remembered
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recency effect
 
last items remembered
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matenance rehersal
 
repetrtion
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levels of processing theory
 
if you like hard about something then you will remember it better tha a shalow thinker
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impact of emotions on memory
 
you will remember more vivadly and accuratly the memory
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state-dependance learning
 
you remember it better if your in the same condition as you learned it
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source misattribution
 
when you think you heared it form one source but it was actually another
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forgetting curve
 
how long it takes top forget something
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amnesia 1 retrograde 2 anteragrade
 
when you get a brain injury 1 cant remember old stuff 2 cant remeber new stuff
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  1.Hypothalamus 
 
  1.Controls the endocrine system and is vital in the reward pathway.  Associated...
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  1.Reticular formation
 
controles on and off swithch for sleep
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  1.Amygdala
 
response to threats associated with fear and agression
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  1.Temporal lobe
 
center for understanding speach
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  1.Parietal lobe
 
contains somatosensory cortex
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  1.Thalamus
 
brings information for the sences to the right cortex (except smell
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  1.Corpus callosum
 
connects the two hemisphers of the cortex
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  1.Motor cortex
 
controls volintary motions
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rich association
 
you have alot of information
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visualization
 
create a pic in you head
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vividness
 
they standout there diffrent
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memonic devices
 
candy ate tree=cat or song and rythem
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peg method
 
hooking new information
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elizabeth Loftus
 
the resurcher of false presupposition
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false presupposition
 
whe someone asks you a guestion and it adds a false  fact . iadds a false msmory
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statistics
 
mathimatic tools to analize data
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data
 
mesurements
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variable
 
something in theworld that can be mesuredand that varies
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correlation
 
whe variable A changes, variable  changes in a predictable way
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variability
 
how widly dispersed the values (or #) are from each other or from the mean
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standard deviation
 
a statistical measure of the average distance individual values from the mean
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range
 
the difference between the two most extreme scores in a distribution  add all of the...
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operationalize
 
to make a variable or hypothesis mesurable
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frequency distribution
 
shows how many times a series or scores or ranges of scores occurs in a set of data
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mean median mode
 
average middle value most often number

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