Memory
cerebellum and basal ganglia
Which two parts of the brain are involved in implicit memories?
Estimating the probability of an event occurring by relying on the ease with which relevant situations come to mind.
What is the availability heuristic?
68.26%
What percent of the population falls within one standard deviation above and below the mean?
This psycho-linguist believes that we have an inherent language acquisition device.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Coming up with multiple solutions to a problem
What is divergent thinking?
Anna vividly remembers the day her father came home from an overseas deployment because the day was very emotional for her.
What is a flashbulb memory?
Thomas believes the congresswoman is an honest person even after she is arrested and sent to jail.
What is belief perseverance?
The author of the first intelligence test for adults
Who was David Wechsler?
The error that a 2 year old makes when she calls every four-legged animal "doggie".
What is an overextension?
Memory loss for events that occur after an injury to the brain.
What is anterograde amnesia?
When Marla returned to her old school she was flooded with memories of the time she spent there.
What is context-dependent memory?
Thomas believes that his congressman is honest and cites examples of her giving to charity while discounting her ethical violations.
What is confirmation bias?
This term relates to Claude Steele's work at Stanford University that sought to explain the differences in IQs of certain racial/ethnic groups.
What is stereotype threat (vulnerability)
The theory that says that one's language determines or influences one's thoughts.
What is the linguistic relativity (or determinism) hypothesis?
Two year old Micah told her grandfather that the new couch "costed" too much.
What is an example of overgenralization (or overregularization) of grammatical rules.
Sean is telling Rachel about some juicy gossip when she stops him and informs him that she is the one who passed this gossip on to him about a week ago.
What is source amnesia?
Many people prefer meat that is 80% lean instead of 20% fat, even though they are the same thing.
What is framing?
This psychologist conducted a longitudinal study of gifted children. He was also one of the psychologists who created the Stanford-Binet IQ test.
Who was Lewis Terman?
c-a-t-s has four of them.
What are phonemes?
This type of long-term memory is the result of effortful processing.
What is explicit memory.
Ray's new assistant in the shipping department is named Joe Bieber. Ray keeps calling him Justin, mixing him up with the singer Justin Bieber.
What is an example of proactive interference?
When the young male of Arab descent boarded the airplane his presence evoked anxiety among many of the passengers and flight attendants, resulting in an additional review of his ticket and passport.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
This Yale psychologist is the author of the triarchic theory of intelligence.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
This refers to knowing how to use language in certain situations, such as knowing when to say "please" and "thank you", and understanding how tone and inflection can help communicate meaning.
What is the pragmatics of language?
When new information alters the memory for an event. Elizabeth Loftus coined this term.
What is the misinformation effect?