Memory
Storage & Retrieval
Forgetting & Memory Construction
Thinking
Language
100
Learning that has persisted over time; information that has been acquired, stored, and can be retrieved.
What is memory?
100
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
100
A scene from the movie Memento which depicts this kind of disability.
What is anterograde amnesia?
100
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people.
What is a concept?
100
Smallest distinctive sound units in a language.
What are phonemes?
200
When our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.
What is parallel processing?
200
Brain structure involved in memory of motor movements.
What is the basal ganglia?
200
When prior learning disrupts your recall of new information.
What is proactive interference?
200
Narrows the available solutions to determine the best solution.
What is convergent thinking?
200
Deriving meaning from sounds.
What is semantics?
300
A certain kind of study effect that results in long-term memory retention.
What is the spacing effect?
300
The brain's equivalent of a "save" button for explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
300
After learning lists of nonsense syllables, this scientist developed a curve that discussed retention.
What is Ebbinghaus?
300
Identify three of the five main components of creativity as we discussed in class.
What are expertise, imaginative thinking skills, a venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, and a creative environment.
300
System of rules that enables us to communicate with one another.
What is grammar?
400
Classically conditioned associations among stimuli and procedural memories for certain kinds of skills.
What is automatic processing?
400
After this has occurred, passing an electric current through the brain won't disrupt old memories.
What is long-term potentiation?
400
Identify three kinds of forgetting and define them.
What are encoding failure, storage decay, and retrieval failure?
400
When no problem-solving strategy seems to work we arrive at a solution with this.
What is insight?
400
Identify the hypothesis that language determines the way we think and provide an example.
What is linguistic determinism?
500
Identify, define, and give examples of three kinds of effortful processing strategies.
What is chunking, mnemonics, and hierarchies?
500
Identify three ways of measuring retention and define each.
What is recall, recognition, and relearning?
500
When Piaget attributed a memory to his own experiences instead of his nursemaid's stories, he experienced an example of this.
What is source amnesia?
500
The matchstick problem is an example of this kind of fixation.
What is a mental set?
500
Identify and explain the four stages of language development in babies.
What are babbling stage, one-word stage, two-word stage, and telegraphic speech?
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