Cognition

Encoding, storing, ____

• processing

• studying

• retrieving

The order in which you learn info matters- 1st & last sticks with you the best, the middle tends to get lost

• next in line

• distributed practice

• serial position effect

• recency effect

part of brain most involved with memory

• amygdala

• hippocampus

• cerebellum

memory, thinking, problem solving, language

• psychology

• cognition

• psychiatry

rule of thumb, well-known tactic for solving a problem

• algorithm

• heuristic

studied eyewitness testimony and misinformation

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Mary Ainsworth

• Sigmund Freud

like riding a bike, procedural memory

• explicit memory

• implicit memory

can't think of another use for an object because you only want to use it for its purpose...you lack creativity

• divergent thinking

• intelligence

• functional fixedness

remembering a tragic event in vivid detail, it stays with you

• retrograde amnesia

• flashbulb memory

• amygdala

can't remember old info because you're learning so many new things

• retroactive interference

• proactive interference

• retrograde amnesia

• anterograde amnesia