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created the forgetting curve which displays how the course of forgetting is initially rapid then levels off over time
Who is Hermann Ebbinhaus?
Discovered that after damage to an area of the frontal lobe a person would struggle to speak words while still being able to sing songs and comprehend speech
Who is Paul Broca?
Argued that people do not have an intelligence but multiple intelligences including verbal and mathmatical aptitudes
Who is Howard Gardner?
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically
What is chunking?
What is social intelligence?
Gave 56 different tests to people and identified 7 clusters of primary mental abilities or intelligences
Who is L.L. Thurstone?
Contended that language determines the way we think
Who is Benjamin Lee Whorf?
Reported that believing intelligence is biologically set and unchanging can lead to a fixed mindset
Who is Carol Dweck?
the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long term retention than is achieved through mass study or practice
What is the spacing effect?
The increase in the IQ of the population over the 20th century
What is the Flynn Effect?
Started modern intelligence testing by developing questions that would predict children's progress in the Paris school system
Who is Alfred Binet?
Proposed that short term memory can retain about seven information bits (give or take two)
Who is George A. Miller?
Identified the 5 components of creativity
Who is Robert Sternberg?
the tendency to recall the last and first terms best in a list and forget the middle
What is the serial position effect?
Describes three different types of intelligence a person can possess
What is Sternberg's Triarchic?
Developed the WAIS test for adults and the WISC intelligence test for preschoolers
Who is David Wechsler?
Wrote a book on language in 2007 called The Stuff of Thpught
Who is Steven Pinker?
Believed we have one general intelligence and granted that people have special abilities that stand out
Who is Charles Spearman?
Matching items to be memorized with a well known location
What is the Loci Method?
Test that measures overall intelligence, and in additions 11 other aspects related to intelligence designed to assess clinical and educational problems
What is the WAIS test?
Adapted Binet's test for American school children and named it the Stanford-Binet Test
Who is Louis Therman?
Observed synaptic changes during learning in the sending neurons of the California sea slug
Who is Eric Kandel?
Helped create a model on how we process explicit memories
Who is Richard Atkinson?
Forming mental images of items to be remembered in a way that links them together
What is the Link Method?
The activation, often unconsciously, of certain association, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response
What is Priming?