Making Memories
This practice is critical for us to encode memories that might otherwise drop right out of our short-term (working) memory?
What is rehearsal?
Which heuristic leads me to pre-judge my new neighbor, who is an actor, as vain and self-centered?
What is the representative heuristic?
These are the two types of amnesia.
What are retrograde and anterograde?
This type of memory is very rich in detail, but it lasts less than half of a second.
What is sensory memory?
Even before babies speak in one-word sentences, they do this.
What is babble?
This declarative or explicit type of memory, might remind you of the fun day in April that you spent fishing with your aunts.
What is an episodic memory?
If I can't easily change my mind about a false myth I learned in my childhood, what failure in judgement am I suffering from?
What is belief perseverance?
In trying to remember a list, these are the two types of things we remember best, according to the serial position effect.
What are the first things on the list (primacy)?
What are the last things on the list (recency)?
When it comes to the study of memory, this is the technical term for "processing" memories.
What is encoding?
No, it's not a drug; but it is the smallest unit of meaning in a language.
What is a morpheme?
You need this to turn a sensory memory into a short-term memory.
What is attention?
If I can't readily see an alternative use for a particular object, what obstacle to problem solving have I tripped over?
What is functional fixidness?
Freud's psychoanalytic theory said that we do this to harmful memories - which causes a failure to retrieve them.
Unless we encode it, this type of memory, which only lasts about 30 seconds, will be gone.
What is short-term (working) memory?
The English language uses about 40 of them. Other languages use either more or less of these basic language sounds.
What are phonemes?
When you learn how to dive into a pool, this part of your brain helps to store this procedural memory
What is the basal ganglia?
Convergent thought will help me on the SAT, but this type of creative thinking will let me see different solutions to a problem.
What is divergent thinking?
You can't recall all the words written on a coin, even though you see coins every week. This is like due to a failure to ________________ .
What is "encode the information".
A lawyer who asks a witness questions by adding additional information about the event in question is trying to induce this phenomenon.
What is the misinformation effect?
His theory is that language is learned naturally and nearly automatically by children, in part because human language has a universal grammar or sorts.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
We tend to remember things that are deeply processed. This means we give the memory _________________ (Starts with an M.)
What is meaning?
A scientist is hoping to prove that A influences B. But - in his research, he neglects to consider evidence that suggests C also influences B. What tendency has he fallen victim to?
What is confirmation bias.
Often, memory interference is responsible for failure to retrieve memories. These are the two types of interference.
What are retroactive and proactive interference?
He did some of the earliest studies of memory, by trying to memorize random syllables.
Who is Ebbinghaus?
He's not a Star Trek character. He is linguist who studied different cultures to learn that language influences our way of thinking.
Who was Whorf? (Benjamin Lee Whorf.)