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________ are categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.
Concepts
What is defined as the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?
Memory
Knowing what a snow looks like because you have seen snow is an example of what type of concept?
Natural Concept
What is an engram?
Bonus question: What year were engrams discovered in the brain?
A group of neurons that serves as physical representation of a memory.
Engrams do not exist.
Which term refers to the process by which we derive meaning from morphemes and words?
Semantics
What is episodic memory?
Information about events we have personally experienced.
The practice of administering, scoring, and interpreting an assessment tool in the same manner is called what?
Standardization
Which term refers to the vocabulary of a language, or the words contained within that language?
Lexicon
________ concepts are ones that we know by a specific set of characteristics, instead of from prior experience,
Artificial Concepts
What is a basic sound unit of a given language?
Phoneme
What is defined as the processes associated with perception, knowledge, problem solving, judgment, language, and memory?
Cognition
What is the smallest unit of language that conveys some type of meaning?
Morpheme
What type of intelligence involves seeing complex relationships and solving problems?
Fluid intelligence
What type of memories do we consciously try to remember, recall, and report?
Explicit (Declarative) Memories
Who created the first version of an intelligence test to identify schoolchildren who would be more likely to have difficulty in school?
Alfred Binet
What is it called when a person can remember previously encoded memories but cannot encode new ones?
Anterograde Amnesia
Which part of the brain is most involved in creating implicit memories?
Cerebellum
What type of intelligence (from multiple intelligence theory) is involved in working with numbers in subjects such as calculus and algebra?
Logical-mathematical intelligence
Being convinced that something was a predictable event even though there was no way of knowing it would happen is an example of what bias?
Hindsight Bias
What is it called when we group information into smaller, easily digestible bits to help remember it?
Chunking
What did the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart suggest about intelligence?
It revealed a genetic component to intelligence, indicating that "Nature" is a factor in intelligence
From a cognitive psychology perspective, why is getting plenty of sleep the night before an exam important?
It allows for consolidation of studied material in long-term memory.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
Thinking about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory.
In Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory, ________ intelligence and ________ intelligence are often combined into a single type: emotional intelligence.
Interpersonal and intrapersonal
Who developed the triarchic theory of intelligence?
Robert Sternberg