Structure of Memory
Encoding and Retrieval
Thinking & Problem Solving
Language
Bonus
100
The persistence of learning over time, through the storage and retrieval of information and skills.
What is memory?
100
Organizing data into manageable units or meaningful groups.
What is chunking?
100
Mental activities and processes associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information.
What is cognition?
100
The use of symbols to represent, transmit, and store meaning/information.
What is language?
100
Memory for an event or “episode.
What is episodic memory?
200
Exposure to one stimuli affects another.
What is priming?
200
Emotionally intense events that become “burned in” as a vivid-seeming memory.
What are flashbulb memories?
200
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, states, ideas, and/or people, etc.
What is a concept?
200
Concepts, quantities, plans, identity, feelings, ideas, facts, and customs.
What is meaning?
200
Organized patterns of sounds, visual representations, and movements
What are symbols?
300
Holding the information for later use.
What is storage?
300
A way to encode information into memory to keep it from decaying and make it easier to retrieve.
What is effortful processing?
300
A step by step strategy for solving a problem, methodically leading to a specific solution.
What is an algorithm?
300
The idea that our specific language determines how we think
What is linguistic determinism?
300
The focus, emphasis, or perspective that affects our judgments and decisions.
What is framing?
400
Memories we are not fully aware of and thus don’t “declare”/talk about.
What is implicit memory?
400
We retrieve a memory more easily when in the same context as when we formed the memory.
What is context-dependent memory?
400
The tendency to get stuck in one way of thinking; an inability to see a problem from a new perspective.
What is fixation?
400
The period of time during which language exposure is necessary for the language centers of the brain continue to develop.
What is a critical period?
400
A short-cut, step-saving thinking strategy or principle which generates a solution quickly (but possibly in error).
What is a heuristic?
500
A model for how information moves from the outside world into long-term memory proposed by Atkinson & Shiffrin in 1968.
What is the modal model of memory?
500
An inability to form new long-term declarative/ explicit memories
What is anterograde amnesia?
500
The tendency to hold onto our beliefs when facing contrary evidence.
What is the Belief Perseverance Error?
500
The stage at which one-year olds are beginning to understand and say many nouns.
What is the one-word stage?
500
Learning associations.
What is conditioning?
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