Psych Unit 5 Review

Memory

1

A limitless storage area of information, including knowledge, skills and experiance

Long Term Memory 

2

The 3 parts/steps of Memory are

Encoding, Storage and Retrieval 

3

This type of memory is made up for information your must consciously work to remember, like algebra. 

Explicit Memory

4

Spreading out your studying to better encode information is known as the...

spacing effect

5

An increase in a cell's firing potential where the neurons become more efficient at communication. 

Long Term Potentiation or LTP

Forgetting

1

Name a reason for why we forget (many answers)

Encoding failure, decay, retrieval failure, Disease, Brain trauma, Amnesia, Dementia, Motivated Forgetting, Chemical Effect

2

This graph shows that forgetting is rapid at first then levels off with time. 

Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve

3

The inability to MAKE NEW memories is ____ Amnesia and the inability to RECALL OLD memories is ____ Amnesia.

Must be in correct order for credit. 

Anterograde  / Retrograde

4

Drug induced Amnesia is called

Chemical Effect

5

Freud's belief that people banish thoughts, feelings and memories from their own consciousness 

Repression

Language

1

When a child is roughly 2 years old, they are in this word stage. 

Two word stage

2

The overall sets of language rules that enable us to communicate and understand each other. Make sure you don't make any errors. 

Grammar

3

This theory of language says that grammar is universal and language is inborn/innate

Chomsky's Nativist Theory 

4

The system of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences. 

Syntax

5

When this part of the brain is impaired, speaking is impaired. 

Broca's area

Intelligence

1

L.L. Thurstone opposed the General Intelligence Theory stating that intelligence was broken into (how many) Mental Abilities. 

7

2

Your ability to Read the Room and base your social interactions on those around you is considered ___ intelligence 

Emotional

3

This type of intelligence is your accumulated knowledge and verbal skills that increase with age. It's very clear. 

Crystallized Intelligence 

4

A condition where a person with an otherwise limited mental ability has an exceptionally specific skill, like the ability to draw from memory. 

Savant Syndrome

5

What are the THREE intelligences in Sternberg's Triarchic theory?

Analytical, Creative, Practical 

Misc

1

Step by step procedure. 100% guaranteed but will take time. 

Algorithm 

2

The measurements of mental traits, abilities and processes, usually done through testing. You could also call it Psychological Testing. 

Psychometrics 

3

Simple thinking strategy based on judgments, past experiences and mental shortcuts. Can be quick, but not always accurate. 

Heuristics

4

These types of test are designed to predict a person's future performance, like the SAT. 

Aptitude Test

5

When you give individuals the same test at different times to check how consistent the scores are. 

Test-retest