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| The study of observable behavior |
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| The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding, as well as the act of using those processes. |
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| The scientific study of thought, language, the brain, of the mind. |
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| The mental processes of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval and the mental storage system that enables these processes. |
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| Generalizability to the real world situations in which people think and act. |
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| Attempting to understand complex events by breaking them down into their components. |
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| Insistence on observation as the basis for all science. |
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| Branch of experimental psychology that dealt with humans as they learned verbal material, composed of letters, nonsense syllables and words. |
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| Set of assumptions and guiding principles |
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| Information Processing Approach |
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| Coordinated operation of active mental processes within a multi-component memory system. |
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| The act of taking in information and converting it into a usable mental form. |
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| Abilities of the short, or working-memory system. Ex: Rehearsal, Coding, Decisions, Retrieval Strategies. |
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| A hypothesis about the specific mental processes that take place when a particular task is performed. |
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| A timed task in which people decide whether letter strings are or are not English words. |
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| Procedure in which patients are asked to verbalize their thoughts as they solve the problems |
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| Top-down, Conceptually driven processing |
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| When existing context or knowledge has an influence on earlier or simpler forms of mental processes. |
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| A disruption in one component of mental functioning but no impairment to another |
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| Complete seperation of two mental functions as evidenced by two patients suffering reciprocal brain trauma of which neither shares disruption similar to the other. |
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| Different functions or actions within the brain tend to rely more heavily on one hemisphere or the other or tend to be performed differently in the two hemispheres. |
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| The receptive and control centers for one side of the body are in the opposite hemisphere of the brain. |
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| Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
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| Positron Emission Tomography |
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| The momentary changes in electrical activity of the brain when a particular stimulus is presented to them |
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| Three layers: Rod/Cones, Bipolar Cells, Ganglion Cells |
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| The reception of stimulation from the environment and the initial encoding of that stimulation into the nervous system. |
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| Process of interpreting and understanding sensory information |
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| Eye sweep from one point to another in fast movements |
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| Failure to notice a change in visual stimuli when those changes occur during a saccades |
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| Failure to see an object we are looking at directly, even a highly visable one, because our attention is directed elsewhere. |
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| The apparent persistence of a visual stimulus beyond its physical duration. |
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| Number of individual items recallable after any short display |
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| When a subject reports any letters they can |
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| The actual memory residing in iconic or sensory memory |
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| Passive process of fading |
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| Forgetting caused by the effects of intervening stimulation or mental processing |
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| The filling in by the brain of any visual gaps to produce the illusion of motion, as in a movie |
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| The perceiving of virtual movement, occurs when tracking an object |
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| When the contents of visual sensory memory are degraded by subsequent visual stimuli |
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| When the contents of visual sensory memory are degraded by subsequent visual stimuli |
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| Term for mental process of visual attention, the part that processes the icons between saccades |
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| Memory system used across eye movements, kinda puts it all together |
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| Stored models of all categorizable patterns |
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| Tendency not to perceive a pattern, whether a word, a picture, or any other visual stimulus when it is quickly repeated |
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| Failure, or deficit, in recognizing objects |
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| Disruption of face recognition |
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| Disruption of face recognition |
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| A basic disruption in perceiving patterns |
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| Agnosia in which you cannot associate the pattern with meaning |
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| Superior recall of the end of the list when the auditory mode is used instead of the visual mode of presentation |
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| inferior recall of the end of the list in the presence of an additional meaningful nonlist auditory stimulus |
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