Language
Memory Theories/Effects
Forgetting
Thinking
Key Figures
100

What is the term for our spoken, written, or gestured works and the way we combine them to communicate meaning?

What is language?

100

What is a system that encodes, stores and retrieves information?

What is memory?

100

What is the part of the brain that seems to play a role in strengthening memories that have strong emotional connections?

What is the amygdala?

100

What is the term for a rule of thumb strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently?

What is a heuristic?

100

What man was named after the section in the brain that is able to comprehend speech?

Who is Carl Wernicke?

200

What is the term for, in language, is the smallest unit that carries meaning?

What is a morpheme?

200

What is the effect that we remember things more at the beginning or the end of a sequence rather than the middle?

What is the serial position effect?

200

What do you use when you must retrieve the information from your memory?

(i.e. fill-in-the-blank test)

What is recall?

200

What is the term for tending to approach a problem in a certain way?

(Hint: This is a problem with heuristics)

What is a mental set?

300

What is the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language?

What is the babbling stage?

300

What is the idea that the way information is encoded affects how well it is remembered? 

(Hint: it's a theory)

What is Levels-of-Processing theory?

300

What type of amnesia is where someone is not able to recall the events of BEFORE the development of said amnesia?

What is retrograde amnesia?

(If you said anterograde amnesia you get a consoling pat on the back)

300

What is the term for the process by which people translate incoming information into a form they can understand?

What is assimilation?

300

Who invented the 3 Stage Memory Model?

(Hint: It's two people.)

Who are Atkinson and Shiffrin?

400

What is the theory that concepts are universal and influence the development of language?

What is cognitive universalism?

400

What can happen when you ask a leading question about an incident that happened a while back?

(i.e. About how fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other.)

What is the misinformation effect?

400

Name 5 of the 7 "sins of forgetting" according to Schacter.

What are transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and/or persistence?

400

What is the term for imprecise mental classifications that develop out of our everyday experiences?

What is natural concepts?

400

Who emphasized the importance of the spacing effect?

(spacing effect: The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.)

Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?

500

What is a mental structure that facilitates the learning of language because it is preprogrammed with fundamental language rules?

What is the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) Schema?

500

What is the term for when you put yourself in the same place you study the material when you take the test?

What is context-dependent memory?

500

What was special about Henry Molaison (H.M.) and Clive Wearing?

What is they both suffered from retrograde and anterograde amnesia?

(Also accept - can't form new or old memories)

500

What is an example of an availability heuristic?

What is a plane crash?

(Just one example)

500

Who said short-term memory can retain 7 short pieces of information?

(Hint: AKA chunking)

Who is George Miller?

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