Metacognition
Confidence
Judgements of Learning
50% confidence
delayed better than immediate
overconfidence is the norm
Feelings of Knowing
Direct-Access Hypothesis
Cue familiarity hypothesis
vs. Accessibility hypothesis
familiarity with the cue
Studying
Control of Study Time
negatively related to JOL
Discrepancy Reduction hypothesis
know vs want to know
easy mastered first
Proximal Learning
study what you think you can learn
Problem Solving
Effects
prior experience
productive thinking
understanding
reproductive thinking
trial and error
Insight
Functional Fixedness
Set Effects
Persistence of Set
Thinking Computer
Task Environment
rules
Problem Space
moves, solutions available
Operator
sequence of moves
Experts
Experience not intelligence
efficient chunking
underlying semantic knowledge
superior schematic knowledge
effective strategies
Analogical Reasoning
Proceduralism
Tips on Problem Solving
understand the problem
remember the problem
identify alternatives
acquire coping strategies
evaluate final hypothesis
explain to others
incubate the problem
Reasoning
Normative
deduction
inference
Descriptive
beliefs, attitudes
Syllogistic
deductive
compares, picks best
inductive
availability/stereotypic
Language
Memory Failure
Decay theory
Interference theory
retroactive
proactive
Cue-Dependent
Inhibition
Retrieval Induced
Directed
False Memory
Loftus Experiments
Short Term Memory
Modal Models
Mind
sensory input
sensory memory
attention
working memory
encoding/retrieval
long term memory
Memory
Duration
Brown Peterson paradigm
Rehearsal Prevention task
Peterson STM task
count backwards
90% loss 18 seconds
Capacity
Miller
7 items +/- 2
Additional Evidence
SERIAL POSITION EFFECT
PRIMACY
RECENCY
AMNESIA
ANTEROGRADE
RETROGRADE
WORKING MEMORY
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE
PHONOLOGICAL LOOP
IRRELEVANT SPEECH EFFECT
WORD-LENGTH EFFECT
ARTICULATORY SUPPRESSION EFFECT
VISUOSPATIAL SKETCHPAD
N-BACK STUDIES
EPISODIC BUFFER
Effects
SELF-GENERATION
DUAL-CODE THEORY
Perception
SENSORY REGISTER
SENSORY TRACE
Information in VERIDICAL FORM
precategorical
EIDETIC MEMORY
Visual
ICONIC MEMORY
9-12 items
1/3 second
Auditory
ECHOIC MEMORY
4 seconds
Attention
Filter Models
Capacity Models
Long Term Memory
MNEMONICS
METHOD OF LOCI
PEGWORD
KEY WORD TECHNIQUE
ORGANIZATIONAL
CUE EFFECTIVENESS
ASSOCIATIVE STRENGTH
ENCODING SPECIFICITY
SPREADING ACTIVATION
Emotion and Memory
Effects
Mood Congruent
more likely to remember information if mood matches
Mood-State-Dependent
Encoding
neutral is best, happy, sad worst
Effortful Processing
depressed people don't spend energy on problems
Retrieval
mood uses capacity