Memory
Forgetting
Thinking
Problem Solving
Intelligence
Psychometric Testing
100
I'm the specific location in the brain associated with forming memories.
What is the hippocampus?
100
When prior learning disrupts your recall of new information.
What is proactive interference?
100
THIS is the psychological perspective that includes the study of all mental processes.
What is cognitive psychology?
100
Using a calculus equation to arrive at a correct answer is an example of using THIS.
What is an algorithm?
100
THIS is the ability to perceive, understand, control, and use emotions.
What is emotional intelligence?
100
THIS is the ability of a test to actually measure what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
200
THIS is the process in which our brain places new information into memory.
What is encoding?
200
Research results shown in THIS graph depict the exponential decay of memory over time. 
What is the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve?
200
THIS element of thought allows us to form categories of "things" so we can tell the difference between certain information.
What are concepts?
200
When asked what the most dangerous animal is, Kelly immediately thinks of sharks, even though cows kill more people every year.
What is the availability heuristic?
200
THIS test helps professionals measure the intelligence of adults and early adolescents and was published in 1955.
What is Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WAIS)?
200
The testing parameters for the ACT and SAT in which all tests are given and scored uniformly.
What is standardization?
300
______ are to memories of facts, concepts, names, and general knowledge as _________ is to memory involving the retrieval of personal events, situations, and experiences.
What is semantic and episodic memory?
300
Inaccurate recall of episodic memory due to inaccurate/misleading details after the fact is a phenomenon known as THIS.
What is the misinformation effect?
300
THIS is the ability to have active awareness and control of our own thoughts/thought processes.
What is metacognition?
300
Rebecca moved into her new apartment and wanted to hang some art. She did not bring a hammer so she used her shoe to put a nail in the wall. Rebecca overcame THIS.
What is functional fixedness?
300
A measure of the extent of differences in people's genes account for differences in their traits.
What is heritability?
300
Sophia was given the same math test every week for a month and her scores came back the same every time. This demonstrates...
What is reliability?
400
Samantha repeats to herself the list of 5 items she needs to purchase to bake a cake during her drive to the grocery store. This is an example of which memory process?
What is maintenance rehearsal?
400
While studying for the Unit 5 Psychology test, a student most clearly remembers the content from the first and last day of lecture. THIS phenomenon is known as...
What is the serial position effect?
400
The bird on the left is an example of...
What is a prototype?
400
THIS represents the difference between saying "I'm 100% correct half of the time" and "I'm 50% correct"
What is framing?
400
THIS refers to the steady increase in world population IQ due to factors such as better health care, more access to education, and advances in technology.
What is the Flynn Effect
400
THIS is designed to assess a person’s potential while THIS measures what a person has already learned (both)
What is an aptitude test and an achievement test?
500
While ________ is information that takes you no effort to recall (such as walking), ________ requires you to actively think/work to remember certain information.
What is implicit memory and explicit memory?
500
If you practice coding using the programming language Python every day and rarely practice coding in Java, you are more likely to remember the Python and forget the Java. THIS is happening because synapses are strengthening connections in the hippocampus.
What is long-term potentiation?
500
Sherlock Holmes and scientists share THIS thought process that allows them to use facts to arrive at one single answer.
What is convergent thinking / logic?
500
THIS explains why when you see a designer T-shirt that costs $1,200, then see a second similar one that costs $100, you're likely to see the second shirt as cheap.
What is anchoring bias.
500
The name of the psychologist who developed a theory of many intelligences including naturalistic, interpersonal, and musical.
Who is Howard Gardner?
500
THIS percentile section of the graph would represent scores of individuals who are "Intellectually Gifted" 
What is the top percentile / top ~2% / top red section?