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What this episode covers
- Perception vs. sensation; top-down and bottom-up processing
- Gestalt principles: proximity, similarity, closure, figure-ground, continuity
- Schemas and perceptual sets
- Problem-solving: algorithms vs. heuristics; mental set; functional fixedness
- Cognitive biases: availability, representativeness, confirmation bias, framing effect
- The Atkinson-Shiffrin model: sensory, working, and long-term memory
- Explicit vs. implicit memory; episodic, semantic, and procedural memory
- Encoding: rehearsal, levels of processing, mnemonics, and chunking
- Forgetting: encoding failure, storage decay, retrieval failure, interference
- The misinformation effect and source amnesia (Loftus)
- Intelligence: g-factor, multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence
- Psychological testing: reliability, validity, and standardization
- Stereotype threat and its effects on test performance