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