Memory

Explicit /Implicit memory

Procedural

Suspect lineups and problems

Information processing model

            Sensory store

            Short term

            Long term

                        Semantic and episodic

Chunking

Elaboration

 

Retrieval cues

Decay over time

Working memory

            Phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and central executive

Levels of processing principle

Encoding specificity principle

State dependent memory

Why you should study over time

Emotional memories/flashbulb memories

Interference: proactive and retroactive

Distinctiveness

Serial order effect

Amnesia

Hippocampus

Anterograde and retrograde amnesia

Connectionist theory

Cerebellum

Forgetting curve

Prospective memory

 

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Cognition

Categorization

            Prototype

Attention

Inductive/deductive

           

Shifting attention

 

Steps for solving a problem

 

Algorithm

Heuristic

IDEAL

            Representativeness heuristic

            Base-rate information

            Availability heuristic

Hindsight bias

 

           

Insight

 

           

Creative people

 

Errors in cognition

            Overconfidence

            Confirmation bias

            Functional fixedness

            Framing effect

            Sunk cost effect

 

Language

            Infinite generatively

            The use of language by nonhumans

 

Language acquisition device

Broca’s aphasia

Wernicke’s aphasia

 

Intelligence

Validity Reliability Standardization  

IQ

Standford-Binet Test

Multiple Intelligence

Sternberg’s triarchic theory

Standardized test

            Norms

Flynn effect

Reliability

Validity

            Content

            Construct

            Predictive

Heredity and IQ scores

 

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Motivation

Drive theory

Homeostasis

Incentive theories

Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivations

Over justification

Hunger

            Glucose, insulin, glucagons

            Leptin and set point

Hypothalamus  lateral, ventromedical, and paraventricular hypothalamus

 

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

 

Emotion Theory: James-Lange Theory, Schachter and Singer’s Theory

Emotional Intelligence

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