Memory
This is the process of getting information into the memory system.
What is encoding?
This is a step-by-step procedure that guarantees a solution to a problem.
What is an algorithm?
This is your conscious memory of facts and experiences.
What is explicit memory?
He developed the first modern intelligence test in France.
Who is Alfred Binet?
This is the smallest unit of sound in a language.
What is a phoneme?
The three stages of the information-processing model of memory.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
This is a mental shortcut that can be prone to errors but often speeds up decision-making.
What is a heuristic?
This type of memory involves skills and conditioned responses.
What is implicit memory?
The most widely used intelligence test today.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?
The set of rules that allow us to derive meaning from words and sentences.
What is semantics?
This type of memory allows you to briefly hold visual information for less than a second.
What is iconic memory?
The tendency to approach a problem with a mindset that has worked previously.
What is mental set?
The brain structure crucial for processing explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
The idea that general intelligence underlies all mental abilities.
What is Spearman’s g factor?
This linguist proposed that humans are born with a language acquisition device.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
This is the type of long-term memory for facts and general knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
This term describes clinging to initial beliefs even after they’ve been disproven.
What is belief perseverance?
Flashbulb memories are stored here and are often associated with emotional events.
What is the amygdala?
Gardner’s theory includes this many multiple intelligences.
What is eight?
The inability to produce speech due to brain damage in the left frontal lobe.
What is Broca’s aphasia?
The inability to retrieve information from one's past is known as this type of amnesia.
What is retrograde amnesia?
This heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory.
What is the availability heuristic?
This type of interference occurs when older information interferes with learning new information.
What is proactive interference?
Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory includes analytical, creative, and this type of intelligence.
What is practical intelligence?
The hypothesis that language determines the way we think.
What is the linguistic determinism hypothesis?