Memory
A limitless storage area of information, including knowledge, skills and experience
Long Term Memory
Name three reasons for why we forget (many possible answers)
Encoding failure, decay, retrieval failure, Disease, Brain trauma, Amnesia, Dementia, Motivated Forgetting, Chemical Effect
When a child is roughly 2 years old, they are in this word stage.
Two word stage
L.L. Thurstone opposed the General Intelligence Theory stating that intelligence was broken into (how many) Mental Abilities.
7
Step by step procedure. 100% guaranteed but will take time.
Algorithm
The 3 parts/steps of Memory are
Encoding, Storage and Retrieval
This graph shows that forgetting is rapid at first then levels off with time.
Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve
The overall sets of language rules that enable us to communicate and understand each other. Make sure you don't make any errors.
Grammar
Your ability to Read the Room and base your social interactions on those around you is considered ___ intelligence
Emotional
A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
Stereotype threat:
This type of memory is made up for information your must consciously work to remember, like algebra or the name of the capital of France
Explicit Memory
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
In a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
Phoneme
This type of intelligence is your accumulated knowledge and verbal skills that increase with age. It's very clear.
Crystallized Intelligence
Simple thinking strategy based on judgments, past experiences and mental shortcuts. Can be quick, but not always accurate.
Heuristics
Spreading out your studying to better encode information is known as the...
spacing effect
Prior learning disrupts the recall of new information
Proactive interference
The system of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.
Syntax
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
These types of test are designed to predict a person's future performance, like the SAT.
Aptitude Test
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli lasting no longer than a few tenths of a second.
Iconic Memory
Freud's belief that people banish thoughts, feelings and memories from their own consciousness
Repression
Babies’ ability to understand what is said to and about them by approximately four months of age
Receptive language
What are the THREE intelligences in Sternberg's Triarchic theory?
Analytical, Creative, Practical
He believed we have one general intelligence, which underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test
Charles Spearman