Unit 4: Cognitive Psychology
the basic unit of meaning (letters and sounds)
phoneme
a ranking system
hierarchy
lacking; going without
deprivation
the process of placing information into the mind
encoding
mental pictures that have a direct relationship to the actual object you are thinking about
analogical representation
inability to store long-term memories
anterograde amnesia
to gain or obtain for yourself
acquire
a grouping of concepts
category
grouping items into smaller segments
chunking
learning new associations by pairing two stimuli
classical conditioning
an idea or thought
concept
your personal interpretation of your senses or thoughts
conception
awareness of your existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings
consciousness
to figure out or unscramble hidden meaning
decode
a recovered memory that is not true
false memory
part of the brain that aids long-term memory
hippocampus
learning that occurs without intention
incidental learning
inability to fall or stay asleep
insomnia
deliberately placing information into your mind
intentional learning
anything that inhibits your brain's ability to remember
interference
your personal meaning given to places, events, situations, and people
interpretation
the hidden aspects of a dream that you must figure out
latent content
relatively permanent changes of behavior resulting from experience
learning
permanent storage of information
long term memory
the aspects of a dream or fantasy that you remember
manifest content
memory tricks to give you cues and aid your ability to retrieve information
mnemonic device
patterning your behavior after someone else
modeling
a meaningful unit of language (words)
morpheme
learning by watching other people
observational learning
repeating behaviors based on outcome
operant conditioning
understanding something through your mind or the senses
perception
carrying out or acting on an expectation or duty
performance
event that creates likelihood that a behavior will be stopped
punishment
remembering long-forgotten memories with someone's help
recovered memory
a form of practice to keep information in the memory
rehearsal
an event that encourages behavior to happen again
reinforcement
moving difficult information from the conscious to the unconscious mind
repression
inability to remember events that happened prior to a brain injury
retrograde amnesia
momentary storage of information
sensory memory
giving reinforcement to the smaller behaviors that eventually make up the new behavior
shaping
temporary storage of information
short term memory
anything that causes a response
stimulus
mental pictures that have no direct relationship to the actual object you are thinking about
symbolic representation
learning through the experience of others without actually doing the action
vicarious
rapid eye moment; stage of sleep during which a person dreams
REM
from memory
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