Memory
The first stage to memory is typing the information into our brain, formally call ________.
What is Encoding?
Making judgments based on recently available information or easily recalled events is this type of heuristic.
What is availability heuristic?
When our brain fills in gaps to perceive a complete image, this is an example of the gestalt principle of
What is closure?
Overarching mental ability that influences performance on various cognitive tasks. Created by Charles Spearman
What is g factor (general intelligence)?
The storage of this type of memory has no limit.
What is long-term memory?
Practicing information so we remember it for longer is called
What is Rehearsal?
Assuming a nice old lady is a grandma is an example of this heuristic.
What is representative heuristic?
Not noticing a visual event because attention is focused elsewhere
What is inattentional blindness?
When a test has consistent results across repeated testing, it is said to be______>
What is Context Dependent memory?
What is phonological loop?
The best/perfect representation of a category.
What is a prototype?
Objects appear the same despite changes in lighting, angle, or distance.
What is (perceptual) constancy?
A test for predicting learning or mastering specific skills or tasks in the future
What is an aptitude test?
This type of memory lasts for only a fraction of a second if we don't continue to focus on it.
What is sensory memory (iconic and echoic)?
When old information gets in the way of new information, this is called ______ interference.
What is Proactive?
Using a previously successful solution to solve a new problem.
What is a mental set?
A cognitive bias that influences interpretation of sensory information based on expectations and past experiences (yanny or laurel)
What is perceptual set?
The equation for IQ.
What is IQ = Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100
Children before 3-5 years of age often don't remember things.
What is infantile amnesia?
Our ability to plan and remember to do things in the future is this type of memory.
What is prospective memory?
Continuing a failing project because of prior investment of time, money, and/or effort.
What is Sunk Cost Fallacy?
Starting with the small details and then building up to a complete perception
What is bottom-up processing?
IQ scores have increased consistently since the early 1900s.
What is the Flynn Effect?
Trauma to the brain causes this person to forget old memories from the past, prior to the accident that caused the trauma.
What is retrograde amnesia?