AP Psychology Unit 5 Vocab

Front

Smallest distinctive unit of sound in language.

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Phoneme

Front

A tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often based on past methods.

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Mental Set

Front

Incorporating misleading info into memory of an event.

Back

Misinformation effect

Front

Memory measure requiring minimal cues to retrieve earlier learned info.

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Recall

Front

Retention of encoded info over time.

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Storage

Front

Memory holding 7 +/- 2 items briefly.

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Working Memory

Front

Methodical, logical rule or procedure for problem-solving.

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Algorithm

Front

Rules for deriving meaning from words/sentences.

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Semantics

Front

A measure of memory where one identifies previously learned items.

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Recognition

Front

Process of accessing info from memory storage.

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Retrieval