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Prototypes


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Experiences are merged, averaged




Relative Pitch


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- Ability to recognize intervals
- The original note does not have to be locked at one frequency (A = 440
Hz, but can reduce to 400 Hz)
- Transposition: Songs can be shifted as long as intervals constant
- Developmental aspect
- Children begin by using absolute pitch when making judgments about
sound
- Too much memory and processing load

, - Develop relative pitch to identify voices and sounds
- Schemata: Knowledge structures developed through experience; guide
our attention




Erasure


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The loss of one set of information in visual sensory memory by another
image (a form of over writing)




Music Qualities


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1. Pitch
2. Duration
3. Loudness
4. Timbre




Automaticity


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- Achieve through practice and memory (experience)
- Releases metal resources
- A form of habit
- A matter of repetitive practice and memory
- Can lead to certain types of problems

, - Missing mistakes
- Inability to change a behaviour as in the Stroop effect




Pertinence


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The momentary importance of information, whether caused by permanent
or transitory factors




External Validity


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Whether the results of a study can be generalized to other situations




Masking


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An effect, often in perception experiments, in which a pattern is presented
very shortly after a stimulus and disrupts or even presents the perception
of the earlier stimulus




Templates


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, Stored models of all categorizable patterns




Geons


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In Biederman's recognition by components model, the basic primitives, the
simple three-dimensional geometric forms in the human recognition system




Dissociation


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Pattern of abilities and performance, especially among brain-damaged
patients, revealing that one cognitive process can be disrupted while
another remains intact




Linguistics


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Skinner
- Language use followed the same laws of learning that other guides other
behaviour
- A reinforced response is expected to increase in frequency, a non-
reinforced response should extinguish, a response conditioned to a certain
stimulus should be emitted to the same stimulus in the future


Chomsky
- Applying behaviourism to language is only a metaphor, and only creates

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