A (M31)
B (M31-32)
C (M32-33)
D (M34)
E (M35)
100

The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information

What is memory?

100

A clear, sustained memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.

What is flashbulb memory?

100

the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.

What is priming?

100

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

What is cognition?

100

A sudden realization of a problem's solution; contrasts with strategy-based solutions.

What is insight?

200

A measure of memory in which the person identifies items previously learned.

What is recognition?

200

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second.

What is iconic memory?

200

An inability to form new memories.  

What is anterograde amnesia? 

200

A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people

What is a concept?

200

The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.

What is framing?

300

Activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten.

What is short-term memory?

300

Retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection. (Also called nondeclarative memories.)

What is implicit memory?

300

Occurs when misleading information has distorted one's memory of an event.

What is misinformation effect?
300

A mental image or best example of a category.

What is prototype?

300

A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.

What is mental set?

400

Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information.

What is automatic processing?
400

Encoding semantically, based on the meaning of the words; tends to yield the best retention.

What is deep processing?

400

Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined.

What is source amnesia? 

400

Narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution

What is convergent thinking?

400

A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

What is confirmation bias?

500

Processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain’s natural mode of information processing for many functions.  

What is parallel processing?

500

Our tendency to recall best the last (recency effect) and first (primacy effect) items in a list.  

What is the serial position effect?

500

The forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information.

What is proactive interference?

500

Expanding the number of possible problem solutions; creative thinking that diverges in different directions

What is divergent thinking? 

500

Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information

What is representativeness heuristic?


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