Perception
Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.
Feature detectors
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people.
Concept
What kind of encoding do you need to preform to complete homework?
Effortful encoding
A certain kind of study effect that results in long-term memory retention.
Spacing effect
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.
Standardization
The activation, often unconciously, of certain associations, thus pre-disposing one's perception, memory, or response.
Priming
When our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.
Parallel processing
What type of processing encodes things like space, time, and frequency?
Automatic processing
What are the three steps to memory?
Encoding, storage, and retrieval
The most widely used intelligence scale; contains verbal and performance subtests.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
What determines our perceptual sets? Where do they come from?
Schemas or experiences
When no problem-solving strategy seems to work we arrive at a solution with this.
Insight
What causes the misinformation effect?
Reconsolidation
Identify, define, and give examples of three kinds of effortful processing strategies.
Chunking, mnemonics, and hierarchies
Where a person with limited mental ability has an exceptional skill such as drawing.
Savant Syndrome
The minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of the time.
Difference threshold
Narrows the available solutions to determine the best solution.
Convergent thinking
Whats the difference between retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia?
Retrograde - can't recall past
Anterograde - can't form new memories
After this has occurred, passing an electric current through the brain won't disrupt old memories.
Long-term potentiation
Spatial, musical, and linguistic are all aptitude’s of this person’s intelligence theory.
Howard Gardner (Eight intelligences)
Drawing from experience and expectations and guided by higher level mental processes to construct perceptions.
Top-down processing
The matchstick problem is an example of this kind of fixation.
Mental set
After learning lists of nonsense syllables, this scientist developed a curve that discussed retention.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Brain structure involved in memory of motor movements.
Basal ganglia
The specific way a person's IQ is calculated.
Mental age divided by chronological age then multiply by 100.