Memory
Storage & Recall
Cognition & Thinking
Conditioning
Misc. (intelligence, perception)
100
Practicing information so we remember it for longer is called...
Rehersal
100
The storage of this type of memory has no limit.
Long term memory
100
Making judgments based on recently available information or easily recalled events is THIS type of heuristic.
Availability heuristic
100
An unlearned reaction to a stimulus is called a(n)...
Unconditioned response
100
Higher-level thinking, personality, and decision making are all completed in which part of the brain?
Frontal lobe (prefrontal cortex also acceptable)
200
Muscle memory of how to do something is also called... (ex - riding a bike)
Procedural memory
200
This type of memory lasts only a fraction of a second if we don't continue to focus on it.
Sensory memory
200
Assuming a nice old lady is a grandma is an example of _________ heuristic.
Representativeness heuristic
200
Use THIS type of operant conditioning consequence if you plan to remove something desirable in order to discourage a behavior.
Negative punishment
200
When our brain fills in gaps to perceive a complete image, this is an example of the Gestalt principle of _________.
Closure
300
Type of memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory
working memory
300
If you study in small chunks over longer periods of time, you will remember better than if you cram right before a test. The small chunks of review over periods of time are called _______ ________.
Distributed practice or spacing effect
300
The best representation of a category or schema
Prototype
300
Tara gets $10 for every A on her report card. This is an example of...
Positive reinforcement
300
Damage to which part of the brain is most associated with amnesia?
Hippocampus
400
When old information gets in the way of new information, this is called __________ interference.
Proactive
400
After a head injury, Jake cannot form new long-term memories but remembers childhood events. This type of amnesia affects the ability to store new information.
Anterograde amnesia
400
Using a preciously successful solution to solve a new problem.
Mental set
400
When Charlie is little, he touches a hot stove, which burns his hand and causes him to cry. Now whenever he sees a stove, he starts crying. What is the conditioned stimulus?
Seeing the stove
400
This type of intelligence starts to decline around our late 20s, early 30s, and is most helpful for problem-solving and abstract reasoning.
Fluid intelligence
500
Our ability to plan and remember to do things in the future is THIS type of memory.
Prospective memory
500
Children aged 3-5 years old often don't remember things. This is called _____________ ___________.
Infantile amnesia
500
Continuing a failing project because of prior investment of time, money, or effort.
Sunk cost fallacy
500
A sales person is paid on commission - meaning they get paid for every product they sell. What schedule of reinforcement is this?
Variable-ratio
500
THIS is the processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain's natural mode of information processing for many functions, including vision.
Parallel processing.
Contrasts with the step-by-step (serial) processing of most computers and of conscious problem solving.