PSYC341 Writing Assignment 3

2. memories for events that personally happened to you
4. inability to call mental images to mind
6. doing the next immediate thing that seems directly related to your goal
7. Psychology whole>sum of parts
9. memories about how to do certain things (ex. riding a bike)
12. one's knowledge and control of one's own cognitive processes
13. aka working memory; duration is 10-15 seconds; brief memory for a limited amount of material
14. has a large capacity; contains memory for experiences and information that one has collected throughout their life
16. a level of processing; says that recall is better if the context at time of encoding is the same at time of recall
18. deciding whether a particular object belongs in a certain category by comparing it to a prototype
21. initial state, goal state, obstacles; strategies include algorithms, analogies and the hill climbing heuristic
22. the awareness that people have about the outside world; does not equal attention but is closely related
23. joined sensations; for example, seeing sounds, hearing shapes, tasting colors
25. interpretation of sensations
27. requires one to identity the ends of the problem and then figure out the means to read those ends goals
28. conversational turn taking; people are good at knowing when to jump in and when not to jump in
29. problem solving strategies that usually produce a correct solution
30. stutters, Freudian slips, etc.

1. how we actually categorize different phonemes
3. how we adjust the pronunciation of a current sound
5. mental representations of non-present objects or events; involved in many cognitive tasks
8. perception driven by hypothesis or past knowledge
10. perception driven by sensory input
11. initial reception of information
15. looking inward; thinking about one's own mental processes
17. when one fails to recognize human faces
19. memory for general facts about the world
20. knowledge about a situation/event/person
24. concentration of mental effort on sensory or mental events; types of this include divided and selective
26. a series of processes, operating on internal representations; our mental activity