The __________ Involves Assessing an Event by Taking an Initial

question 47

Short Answer

The __________ involves assessing an event by taking an initial value from historical precedent or an outside source, and then incrementally adjusting this value to make a current assessment.

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Definitions:

Episodic Memory

Memory for specific events and experiences.

Automatization

The process by which a skill becomes automatic with practice, requiring less conscious thought and effort to perform.

Spreading Activation

A mechanism within associative networks that explains how information is retrieved in the brain, where thinking about one concept activates related concepts.

Lexical Decision Task

A psychological experiment in which participants decide as quickly as possible whether a given string of letters is a real word or a non-word.