Cognition
These are the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating
What is Cognition?
I knew it all along phenomenon
What is hindsight bias?
The name for basic speech sounds in a language
What is a phoneme?
This is the part of the brain that develops memory for storage
What is the hippocampus?
The name of the guy who said that physiological needs are the first level of this Hierarchy of Needs
Who is Maslow?
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
What is a concept?
The tendency to recall the first and last items on a list more easily.
What is serial positioning effect?
The smallest unit of meaning in a language
What is morpheme?
When you repeat information continuously to help you encode
What is rehearsal?
The body's tendency to maintain a balanced or maintained state.
What is homeostatis?
This is a shortcut in thinking or remembering.
What is a heuristic?
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions. Example: A scissors can only be used to cut.
What is functional fixedness?
The babbling stage of language starts at what age?
What is 4 months old?
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, the acronym used to remember the order of operations is an example of this
What is a Mnemonic Device?
The involuntary and unlearned things we do as humans and animals, like a dog shaking after a bath, supports this theory.
What is the Instinct Theory?
This is a problem solving strategy that guarantees a solution to a problem.
What is an algorithm?
Our tendency to focus on information that supports our preconceptions.
What is confirmation bias?
If nature is about how genetics impact a person, then nurture is _______
How the environment affects a person?
Clumping information into more manageable units in order to remember it better is called this
What is chunking?
This is the physiological drive associated with the need for food
What is hunger?
Often known as the "a-ha moment" or the "light bulb going off moment"- it's an abrupt realization of the answer to a problem
What is insight?
a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past
What is mental set?
The name of the girl we studied in regards to the nature/nurture debate. She was neglected and abused as a small child and was never taught language.
Who is Genie?
The idea that information is better retained when learned over a period of time rather than all at once
What is the Spacing Effect?
The Yerkes-Dodson law says that having some stress or anxiety actually does this this to our level of performance
What is improves it/increases it?