HBS Cognition Flashcard Prep

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The ability to recall and mentally re experience specific episodes from one’s personal past

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episodic memory

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Conscious, long-term memory for meaning, understanding, and conceptual facts about the world

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semantic memory

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the conscious recollection of experiences, events and information used in everyday life.

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explicit memory

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information we do not store purposely and is unintentionally memorized

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implicit memory

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Because it has all of the features commonly associated with the concept bird, a robin is considered a

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prototype

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Compared to convergent thinkers, to solve a problem divergent thinkers are more likely to:

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Think creatively and generate multiple answers

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If you studied French in high school, you might have a hard time learning Spanish vocabulary words in college because of:

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proactive interference

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Retrograde amnesia is a phenomenon in which a person suffers a brain injury from a stroke or an accident and loses the ability to remember:

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Events immediately before the injury

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Working memory is most active during which portion of the information-processing model? Options: short term memory, sensory memory, long term memory, semantic memory

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short term memory

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The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows:

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A steep initial drop in retention followed by a gradual decline