Module 5 : Do We Think Like Computers?
absentmindedness
(forgetting) forgetting caused by lapses in attention
persistance
(intrusion) inability to forget undesirable memories (traumatic even)
Hibutation
Decreases or stops a response to a repetitive stimulus that neither rewards or harms ex. birds not flying away from passing cars
Necker Box
Related to Gestalt; figure/ground relationships. 3D drawing of a box with a hole in it that you can manipulate by staring at it.
short-term memory
activated memory that holds a few items briefly
retrograde amnesia
an inability to retrieve information from one's past
Transduction
considers moving one type of energy (such as physical energy) into a different type (neural impulses).
Misattribution
distortion; source of memory is confused
effortful processing
encoding that requires attention and conscious effort (studying )
encoding failure
failure to process information into memory
transience
forgetting over time
Blocking
forgetting that occurs when an item in memory cannot be accessed or retrieved
construction
forming new memories
antergrade amnesia
inability to form new memories
Perception
interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
Bias
memories distorted by current belief system
explicit memory
memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare"
perceptual priming
reflects implicit memory for the sensory features of an item ex: if we talk about ducks and i show you this picture u will see a duck
implicit memory
retention independent of conscious recollection
process of memory
sensory input, sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
Sensation
simple stimulation of a sense organ
sematic encoding
the encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words
long-term memory
the relatively permanent storage of information
suggestibility
the tendency to incorporate misleading information from external sources into personal recollections
automatic processing (encoding)
unconscious encoding of incidental information space, time, sequence, frequency are automatically processed
mental frames
ways we view the world around us that influence how we understand our world
attentional blink
when our eyes and ears go almost blind or deaf to any other stimuli when receiving info
Eyewitness: Misinformation
wrongful convictions because the memory wasnt memorized correctly