Encoding
Things we encode without trying such as what you ate for dinner last night.
What is automatic encoding?
All incoming information if first stored here.
What is sensory memory?
This is the tendency to recall better the first and last items on a list.
What is the serial position effect?
If you use one of these correctly, you are guaranteed to find a solution to the problem.
What is an algorithm?
The smallest unit of language...just the sounds that make up a language.
What is a phoneme?
This refers to the fact that we are better at encoding things that we find important to us.
What is the self-reference effect?
This part of the brain has the acetylcholine neurotransmitters needed to store explicit long-term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
The "forgetting curve" was created by this person.
Who is Herman Ebbinghaus?
If you figure out that you can use a brick for a hammer to put your tent posts in the ground because you forgot to bring your hammer on the camping trip, then you don't suffer from this problem solving problem.
What is functional fixedness?
Pre, dis, bi, and at are all examples of this component of language.
What is a morpheme?
This refers to the fact that we encode better when we encode based on meaning.
What is semantic encoding?
Breaking information into easy units making them easier to encode and retain in short-term memory.
What is chunking?
This type of retrieval is what we must do on a multiple choice test...sorry, no word bank here.
What is recognition?
Being afraid to go in the ocean because you saw a news report about a shark attack is an example of suffering from this problem solving problem.
What is availability heuristic?
If we are arguing about what a word means, then we are arguing about this.
What is semantics?
The way you encode information in classes is most likely this type of encoding...if you try.
What is effortful?
Implicit memories do not require conscious recollection...like this type which allows to do things like walk and ride a bike.
What is procedural memory?
Freud said sometimes people do this with their memories so they don't have to deal with the anxiety.
What is repression?
Stereotyping is a version of this heuristic.
What is the representative heuristic?
The theory that the language we speak affects how we understand and think about the world.
What is the Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity (Sapir-Whorf)?
Acronyms and Method of Loci are two types of these.
What are Mnemonics?
Type of long-term memory that involves specific recollection of life events.
What is episodic?
For my parents generation the assassination of JFK is an example of this, for my generation it is the 9/11 attacks...I'm not sure about your generation yet.
What is a flashbulb memory?
After being presented with evidence to the contrary, if a person says "I don't care, this is just what I believe" they are likely suffering from this.
What is belief perseverance?
Who is Noam Chomsky?