Perceive This or That
Memory
Knowledge and Imagery
Language & Problem Solving
Decision Making
100

This type of processing is driven by sensory input and data from the environment

Bottom-up processing

100

This type of memory stores facts and general knowledge about the world.

Semantic memory

100

This approach to categorization uses an “average” representation of a category.

Prototype Approach

100

This term refers to the rules governing sentence structure

Syntax

100

This heuristic involves judging probability based on how easily examples come to mind.

Availability Heuristic 

200
Which Gestalt principle explains how we group objects that are close together in space?

Proximity

200

This effect shows better recall for items at the beginning and end of a list.

serial position effect

200

This approach categorizes objects by comparing them to stored examples.

Exemplar Approach

200

This theory proposes that language ability is innate and universal across humans.

Universal Grammar (Chomsky)

200

This heuristic involves judging probability based on similarity to a prototype.

Representative Heuristic 

300

The theory stating that attention is required to bind features like color and shape together into objects

Feature Integration Theory

300

This process stabilizes memory after initial encoding and involves the hippocampus.

Consolidation 

300

This level of categorization is the most commonly used and cognitively efficient (e.g., “dog”).

Basic Level Category 

300

A cadet continues using the same failed study strategy despite poor results. This illustrates this problem-solving obstacle.

Mental Set

300

This theory assumes people make rational decisions to maximize expected outcomes.

Utility Theory

400

In this experiment, participants fail to notice a gorilla while focusing on counting passes

Inattentional Blindness

400

This theory explains memory errors by stating that memories are reconstructed rather than replayed.

Constructive Nature of Memory

400

This theory proposes two codes for memory: verbal and visual.

Paivio's Dual Coding Theory

400

Two officers interpret the same tactical problem differently because of how the problem is presented. This demonstrates:

Framing 

400

This bias causes people to stick with default options

Status Quo Bias

500

This model proposes multiple resource pools for attention based on modality, stages, and codes

Wickens multiple Resource Model
500

This phenomenon occurs when retrieving a memory makes it temporarily unstable and open to change.

reconsolidation

500

This researcher demonstrated that mental scanning time increases with imagined distance.

Kosslyn 

500

A problem-solving method that is guaranteed to work but is often impractical in real-world, time-constrained environments like combat is:

Algorithm

500

This model describes fast intuitive thinking versus slow analytical thinking.

dual systems model (System 1 & System 2)

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