Memory
"My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Naan" is an example of this type of "m"emory device to remember the order of the planets. No need to say the silent letter that is starts with.
What is a mnemonic?
This french named phenomenon of feeling like one has lived through a situation in the past is actually a memory glitch, possibly due to a misfiring in brain regions that handle familiarity that can be triggered by fatigue
What is Deja Vu?
This type of intelligence involves the ability to more easily navigate social situations and better understand the feelings and thoughts of other people
What is emotional intelligence?
I will try to be kind even if you forgot this "m"easure of central tendency that gives you the average of a data set
What is mean?
"Remember Me" was a hit song from this Disney Pixar movie that is ripe for a rewatch since we are not that far removed from dia de los muertos
What is Coco?
Working memory is also called this two word diminutive memory because it is involved in the retention of information for a relatively small time (usually up to 30 seconds)
What is short-term memory?
When a word is on the tip of your tongue but you can't "r"ecall it, you are experiencing failure in this final stage of memory
What is retrieval?
The "Q" in IQ (a measure of intelligence) stands for this mathematical word that is often used to describe the result of division problems
What is quotient?
The normal distribution is commonly described as the curve named after this musical object that is resembles
What is the Bell curve?
"I Forgot that you Existed" was a minor hit for this major artist off of her 2019 album "Lover"
Who is Taylor Swift?
This is a helpful memory method where you break something up into more manageable parts, like breaking a phone number into 3 groups instead one 10-digit number
What is chunking?
One of the ways that we forgot is the natural decay of this stage of memory, saving the information for future use. It's why you may not remember the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark
What is storage (decay)?
The long-term rise in standardized IQ scores across generations is an effect named after this man who has suggested that better nutrition, more years of schooling, and increased familiarity with abstract thinking have influenced cognitive abilities across the world
What is Flynn (effect)?
This measure of variability describes how much a data set varies compared to the mean and you should be able to puzzle out what it is if you are two or three of these above the mean with your IQ score
What is standard deviation?
This super-fan in an Eminem song narrates his letters including the lines "Remember when we met in Denver? You said if I'd write you, you would write back."
Who is Stan?
These mental connections between concepts are key for learning and memory and if you can create a lot of them you are likely to get an "A"
What are associations?
The loss of memories can be described using this "A" word of which there are retrograde and anterograde varieties
What is amnesia?
This type of intelligence involves flexible thinking and reasoning with a lot of speed and it tends to decrease after the age of 30
What is fluid intelligence?
This type of study takes a "snapshot" of different groups at the same time, like giving an IQ test to kids and their parents simultaneously to see how age impacts intelligence
What is a cross-sectional study?
This colorfully-named singer's radio version of his most popular song is "Forget You" but the uncensored version does not use that specific f-word
Who is CeeLo Green?
A person's tendency to better remember information when it is related to them is known as this effect
What is the self-reference effect?
This type of interference occurs when new information messes with old learning, like your Italian that you're learning causing you to forgot the Spanish words that you learned previously
What is retroactive Interference?
This physical form of intelligence theorized by Howard Gardner is the ability to use one's whole body to solve problems and it's likely that athletes "K"on Knueppel and Kosta Koufos have high amounts of it
What is Kinesthetic Intelligence?
This 2-word alliterative term describes data that is important enough that we shouldn't dismiss it as just occurring randomly
What is statistical significance?
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds closes out this classic 80's movie about a disparate group of teens sentenced to detention on a Saturday
What is the Breakfast Club?