Memory
Retaining information about experiences and events that happen in life?
What is episodic memory?
Ebbinghaus' theory that humans forget 50% of what they learn in 24 hours.
What is the forgetting curve?
When our brain fills-in the details to create a "whole"
What is the Gestalt Theory?
Unconscious process of encoding certain information is called this.
What is automatic processing (implicit memory, procedural memory)?
When old information gets in the way of new learning
What is proactive interference?
A mnemonic device that uses the location of rooms in a house to help recall information.
What is the Method-of-Loci?
Using pre-conceived ideas to create a perception of a stimuli
What is the Top-Down Processing?
The three components of Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?
What is analytical, practical, and creative?
The ability to recall information better when you are in the same state of consciousness?
What is State-Dependent-Memory?
Each of our eyes sees a slightly different image
What is retinal disparity? (a binocular cue)
These are efficient and they lead to a rapid solution.
What is a perceptual set?
Initial intelligence tests from Alfred Binet was meant to identify what factor?
What is their mental age?
When post-event factors influence memory recall
What is the misinformation effect?
Perceptions used in art such as relative size, interposition, texture gradient, and motion parallax
What are monocular cues?
This is the effortful recall of facts
What is explicit memory?
This is a shortcut in thinking or remembering.
What is a heuristic?
Why we can't remember before the age of 3?
Late development of the hippocampus / infantile amnesia.
If the flipped coin lands on tails 5 times in a row, we believe it will land on heads next time.
What is gambler's fallacy?