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Psychoology - cognitive key words
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- 1control processesconscious decisions about what to attend to from the sensory information in our enviroment
- 2attended informationinformation that is given attention
- 3rehearsalconsciously rehearsing and repeating items
- 4whole or partial report techniqueparticipants are asked to recall the whole array or part of the array, such as a line
- 5visual arrayan arrangement of digits or letters
- 6interference taska task that prevents the rehearsal, such as counting backwards
- 7phonological similarity effectsimilar sounding words and letters are acoustically confused in stm, making it more difficult to recall
- 8mnemonica system for something remembering something such as an association or a pattern of letters
- 9serial position effectrecall of information at the beginning and end of a list higher than the middle of the list
- 10dual task experimentexperiments that involve two tasks that either compete with each other for the same cognitive resource because they are similar
- 11modality freeable to process different forms of information
- 12neuroimagingimages showing the structure or function of the brain using scanner such as an mri or cat
- 13brocas areaan area of the left (typically) frontal lobe associated with the production of language
- 14Alzheimer's diseasesa neurological degenerative disease that impairs cognitive functioning causing memory los
- 15episodic buffera subcomponent of the working memory associated with interfacing with long term memory and integrating information from other sub components
- 16episodic memorymemory for events
- 17semantic memorymemory for facts
- 18temporalrelates to when something occurred
- 19spatialrelates to where something occurred
- 20Cue dependent recallRecall that is prompted b a specific context or physiological or psychological state that was encoded with the original memory
- 21anoxic episodelack of oxygen to the brain causing injury
- 22Reconstructive memorythe idea that we alter information we have stored when we recall it, based on prior expectations/knowledge
- 23Comorbiditythe presence of more than one disorder in the same person at the same time
- 24Laboratory experimentan experiment conducted in a controlled enviroment
- 25Field Experimenta piece of research that takes place in the setting where the behaviour being studies will occur naturally
- 26Operationalisationdefining the variable specifically so that they are directly tested
- 27alternative hypothesisa statement that lays out what a researcher predicts will be found. This is also known as an experimental hypothesis
- 28directional hypothesisa directional hypothesis predicts the direction of difference or relationship that the result is likely to take
- 29Non-directional hypothesispredicts that a difference or relationship will be found, but doesn't state its direction
- 30Null hypothesispredicts no difference/relationship will be found or that any difference/relationship is due to chance factors
- 31Extraneous variablesa variable that may have affected the dependent variable but that was not the independent variable
- 32Confounding variablea variable that affects the finding of a study directly, so much that you are no longer measuring what you intended to
- 33control groupA group of participants that does not experience the experimental situation but acts as a baseline against which to judge any change
- 34Individual differencesnatural variation in human characteristics
- 35participant variablesnatural variation in human characteristics
- 36Random allocationparticipants are allocated to a condition of the study at random
- 37Order effectsthe problem with presentation order of stimulus material. Participants may become practised at the test do improve performance
- 38Internal validitythe extent to which the outcome of the study is the direct result of the manipulated independent variable
- 39External validityThe extent to which the findings apply to other people and situations
- 40construct validity
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