AP Psych Review: Cognition

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Inability to perceive a new use for an object associated with a different purpose

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Functional Fixedness

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Problem-solving procedures or formulas that guarantee a correct outcome

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Algorithm

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The rules of language

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Grammar

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Techniques used to improve memory: Bias, Persistence, Mnemonic, Transience

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Mnemonic

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Part of LTM that stores memories of how things are done.

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Procedural memory

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Your sensory memory is the quickest and is split into two parts, what you hear and what you see. These are called...

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echoic and iconic

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Also known for his curve of forgetting, which Cornell notes is based off of, this researcher discovered the primacy and recency effect.

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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On the following list, which would you remember based on the primacy and recency effect? 4,9,8,4,2,6,3,6,8,4,2,1,1,5,7

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4,9,8 and 1,5,7

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This theorist believed humans were born with a language acquisition device, meaning children are predisposed to learning language quickly.

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Noam Chomsky

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This theorist believed that the language we speak can change how we think. For instance, some languages have more words for "love" than English. Does this mean that they have a greater understanding of what love is?

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Benjamin Whorf