Memory
The process of getting information into the memory system
What is... encoding
in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.
What is... phoneme
The two colors that make up the flag of Denmark
What is... red and white
according to Spearman and others, underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.
What is... general intelligence/g intelligence/g factor
all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is... cognition
a newer understanding of short-term memory that adds conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory.
What is... working memory
in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word
What is... morpheme
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
WHO is... Amelia Earhart
a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
What is... savant syndrome
a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
What is... concept
retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare." (Also called declarative memory.)
What is... explicit memory
beginning around 4 months, the stage of speech development in which an infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language.
What is... babbling
What classic cartoon gang is a group of five (four plus one dog)?
What is... Scooby-Doo
(normal distribution) a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data; most scores fall near the mean (about 68 percent fall within one standard deviation of it) and fewer and fewer near the extremes.
What is... normal curve
a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more errorprone than an algorithm.
What is... heuristic
retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection. (Also called nondeclarative memory.)
What is... implicit memory
a brain area involved in language comprehension and expression; usually in the left temporal lobe.
What is... Wernicke's Area
The only lowercase letter in the word "Disney" in the Walt Disney logo
What is... I (i)
the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting.
What is... reliability
narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution.
What is... convergent thinking
processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain's natural mode of information processing for many functions.
What is... parallel processing
the strong form of Whorf's hypothesis—that language controls the way we think and interpret the world around us.
What is... linguistic determinism
What does the term "phalanges" refer to?
What is... FINGERS
the extent to which a test or experiment measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
What is... validity
expanding the number of possible problem solutions; creative thinking that diverges in different directions.
What is... divergent thinking