Memory
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
What is flashbulb memory?
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
What is creativity?
In a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
What is morpheme?
This phenomenon can lead us to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs.
What is overconfidence?
Retention independent of conscious recollection. (Also called nondeclarative memory)
What is implicit memory?
An increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.
What is long-term potentiation (LTP)?
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
What is concept?
Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.
What is linguistic determinism?
Five to seven bits of information is the capacity for which memory bank?
What is short-term (or working) memory?
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.
What is chunking?
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
What is mood-congruent memory?
A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
What is algorithm?
This is the critical period for learning to speak or sign language fluently.
What is early childhood (or before 8-years-old)?
The understanding that you're more likely to remember psychology concepts in the psychology class where you learned them is referred to as what type of memory, or memory effect?
What is context-dependent memory, or context effect?
Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices.
What are mnemonics?
Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list.
What is serial position effect?
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error prone than the alternative.
What is heuristic?
An area of the frontal lobe that controls language expression.
What is the Broca's area?
The understanding that forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off with time is known as what?
What is the Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve?
Encoding on a basic level based on the structure of appearance of words.
What is shallow processing?
Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.
What is source amnesia?
The way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.
What is framing?
Impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage.
What is aphasia?
Robert Sternberg and colleagues identified five components of creativity: Expertise, imaginative thinking skills, a venturesome personality, ______________ ________________, and a creative environment. Identify the missing concept.
What is intrinsic motivation?