Psychology

• Cognitive


  working through thoughts to process information.
• Perception


  becoming cognitively aware through the processing of sensory information.
• Analogy


  a comparison.
• Memory


  the process of encoding and storing information.
• Recall


  Bringing back a memory.
• Schema


  a mental package of beliefs and expectations that influence memory.
• Rationalisation


  when parts of your memory are distorted to fit your schema, to make the memory meaningful.
• Confabulation


  when details are added to a memory to fill in 'gaps', to make recall meaningful.
• Shortening


  when part of your memory is left out, so what remains is shorter.
• Cues


  a prompt that helps you to access your memories.
• Authority Bias


  the tendency to attribute greater accuracy to the opinion of an authority figure.
• Positive Priming


  stimulus that makes a response to a prime faster.
• Negative Priming


  stimulus that makes a response to a prime slower.
• Priming/prime


  stimulus that subconsciously affects how you respond to something.
• Semantic


  the meaning of something.
• Schemata


  plural of schema.
• Repetitive Priming


  we process a stimulus more quickly because we encountered it earlier.
• Semantic Priming


  we process a stimulus more quickly because we earlier encountered a stimulus related to it in meaning.
• Associative Priming


  we process a stimulus more quickly because we earlier encountered a stimulus that is often paired with it.
• Capacity


  how much your memory can hold.
• Duration


  how long your memory can store memories.
• Coding


  the way information is changed and stored in your memory.
• Recognition


  familiarity with a stimulus or previous experience.
• Confirmation Bias


  the tendency to recall information that confirms your beliefs or values.
• Reconstructive Memory


  pieces of stored memory are resembled during recall.