Problem Solving
a rule of thumb
Hueristic
Thinking about thinking
Metacognition
Cramming information all at once. Not an effective learning tool
Massed Practice
A student's rapid loss of knowledge after a lecture
Forgetting Curve
failing to notice changes in the environment
Change Blindness
Adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new information
Accommadation
Test is designed to predict a person's future performance
aptitude test
Encoding of sounds, especially the sounds of words
Phonemic Encoding
Temporary inability to remember something you know, accompanied by a feeling that it is just out of reach
Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon
Objects that are close to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together
Proximity
Making decisions about a current situation based on what one has previously invested in the situation, e.g., finishing a bad movie because you already paid for it.
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Female students underperform on a math test because they are aware of the belief that women are less proficient at math
Stereotype Threat
a photograph or picture image lasting no more than a few seconds
Iconic Memory
Incorporating misleading information into one's own memory
Misinformation Effect
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere
Inattentional Blindness
Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to match a particular prototype
Representative Heuristic
A child with a chronological age of 10 and a mental age of 12 would have an IQ score of _________according to the original formula.
120
Student use their college campus to remember a list of historical dates for an exam by mentally placing each date at a distinct location on their walk to class
Method of Loci
A student who fails to take notes during a psychology lecture may struggle to recall many of the details. The information was never successfully transferred into their long-term memory.
Encoding Failure
Linear Perspective and Interposition are both types of...
Monocular Depth Cues
After seeing fast food commercials all day you are more likely to eat a hamburger than a salad
Priming
A high school student who is a strong bodily-kinesthetic learner, excelling in sports and dance, but also has high interpersonal intelligence, making them a natural leader in group projects and a good communicator
Multiple Intelligences
A person who is feeling sad, recalling only negative events, like a test that went poorly or a disappointing lunch, even if their day also included positive moments
Mood-Congruent Memory
Patient is a 50-year-old man who sustained a severe head injury in a car accident. After regaining consciousness, he has no memory of the accident itself or any events that occurred in the past few hours.
Anterograde Amnesia
Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions based on our experiences and expectations
Top-Down Procesing