Retrieval
What are the three retention measures?
What is recall, recognition, and relearning?
These memory aids use organizational devices to help remember information.
What is mnemonic devices?
The smallest unit of sound used in a language.
What are phonemes?
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.
What is a concept?
A test that measures ability or potential.
What is an aptitude test?
The greater likelihood of recalling an item when our mood matches the mood we are in when an event occurs.
What is mood-congruent memory?
The brief memory for sounds.
What is echoic memory?
Words spoken in a particular order to convey meaning.
What is syntax?
A mental shorcut.
What are heuristics?
A test that measures what one has learned.
What is an achievement test?
A clear, sustained memory of an emotionally significant event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
This researcher demonstrated sensory memory by flashing a grid of letters onto a screen and having participants recall certain rows.
Who is George Sperling?
The period of time around 1 year old when babies speak in single words.
What is the holophrastic stage?
When a teacher states that a certain problem is very hard, causing the students' judgment to change negatively.
What is framing?
This tests' goal is to see how quickly a person can solve problems.
What is a speed test?
This effect predicts that we are most likely to remember items near the beginning of a list.
What is the primacy effect?
What is the average number of items our short-term memory can hold?
Seven items
What is wrong with the sentence "Marky hitted my head so I throwed the truck at him"?
Misapplication of grammar rules (overregularization).
The tendency to overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge and judgments.
What is overconfidence.
Using the Stanford-Binet IQ test, these two types of ages are divided by each other.
What is mental and chronological age?
This psychologist is well known for his serial position effect and forgetting curve.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
This part of the three-box information-processing model loses information due to retrieval failure.
What is long-term memory?
The idea that the language we speak shapes the way we think.
What is the linguistic relativity hypothesis?
What are casinos exploiting by broadcasting wins with noisy bells and flashing lights while losses go unseen?
The availability heuristic.
This type of test involves great interaction between the examiner and examinee.
What are individual tests?