Memory
A unique and highly emotional moment can give rise to clear, strong, and persistent memory
What is a flashbulb memory?
A process that involves knowing, understanding, remembering, and communicating
What is thinking (or cognition)
Intelligence that is linked to many clusters and can be analyzed by factor analysis to create a single underlining aspect of intelligence.
What is general intelligence (g)?
Measures overall intelligence – consists of 2 parts, verbal and performance
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?
The smallest distinctive sound unit in a spoken language.
What is phonemes?
information is retrieved and manipulated & maintained through rehearsal (instead of simpler ST memory).
What is working memory?
Methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
What is an algorithm?
9 different forms of intelligence, each relatively independent of the others
What is Gardner's Multiple Intelligences?
Commissioned by the French government to design a “test” to identify French children who would have problems in regular classes.
Who is Alfred Binet?
The smallest unit that carries meaning may be a word or a part of a word
What is morphemes?
When your recall is better for what other people say but poor for a person just before you in line.
What is the next-in-line effect?
Simple thinking strategies that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently.
What is a heuristic?
A set of skills that underlie the accurate assessment, evaluation, expression and regulation of emotions.
What is emotional intelligence (EQ)?
Intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill - how well you could do (ACT/SAT)
What is an aptitude test?
The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.
What is Syntax?
Intention or conscious recollection of information…you are deliberately trying to remember something
What is Explicit Memory?
Tendency to think of only the familiar or typical functions for objects
What is functional fixedness?
Ability to decipher information and make decisions (especially in new situations), which is more difficult at an old age, so it decreases as we age (past middle adulthood).
What is fluid intelligence?
A test that yields consistent results
What is reliability?
Language development can be explained on the basis of learning principles, such as association, imitation and reinforcement.
What is Skinner's Language Acquisition Theory?
When old information interferes with (blocks) the retrieval of new information
What is proactive interference?
How an issue is presented can significantly affect decisions and justments
What is framing?
When someone has an extremely high ability in one specific area accompanied by significant delays or deficits in other areas of intelligence.
What is Savant Syndrome?
Refers to the extent a test measures a particular behavior or trait.
What is content validity?
A neural system of the brain for understanding language that is switched on by exposure to language in our environment
What is Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device?