Memory and Thought

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Memory and Thought
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Information Processing

• Input
• Central processing
• Output

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Taking in Information

• Information
• Stimuli
• Selective Attention
• Selective Theory- Donald Broadbent
• Attenuation Theory- Anne Treisman
• Feature Extraction

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Storing Information

• Sensory Storage
• Short Term Memory
• Rehearsal
• Chunking
• Long Term Memory
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Do you Remember the Numbers?
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Other Models of Memory

• Endel Tulving
• Semantic
• Episodic
• L.R. Squire
• Declarative
• Procedural
• Priming
• Conditioning
• Memory and the brain
• Striatum
• Hippocampus and amygdala
• neurons

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Retrieving Information

• Tip of the Tongue Syndrome
• Recognition
• Recall
• Confabulation
• Eidetic Memory
• Relearning
• Implicit
• Forgetting
• Decay
• Interference
• Proactive and retroactive
• Repression

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Improving Memory

• Techniques
• Overlearning
• Avoid studying similar material together
• Mnemonic Devices
• Method of Loci
• Mental Pictures

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Central Processing of Information

• Thinking
• Units of thought
• Images
• Symbol
• Concept
• Rule
• Kinds of Thinking
• Directed/convergent
• Non-directed/divergent
• Metacognition

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Problem Solving

• Strategies
• Set
• Rigidity
• Functional Fixedness
• Creativity
• Flexibility
• Recombination
• Insight
• Aha syndrome