Memory Systems
This type of memory briefly holds incoming sensory information.
What is sensory memory?
A mental shortcut used to make judgments quickly is called this.
What is a heuristic?
The basic sound units of language are called these.
What are phonemes?
This psychologist proposed the concept of general intelligence, or “g.”
Who is Charles Spearman?
The inability to retrieve stored information is called this.
What is forgetting?
George Miller proposed that short-term memory can hold about this many items.
What is 7 ± 2 items?
Solving a problem through trial and error demonstrates this strategy.
What is an algorithm/trial-and-error problem solving?
Morphemes are defined as these.
What are the smallest meaningful units of language?
The ability to reason quickly and think abstractly is called this type of intelligence.
What is fluid intelligence?
When old information interferes with learning new information, this occurs.
What is proactive interference?
The process of getting information into memory is called this.
What is encoding?
The inability to see a new use for an object is called this.
What is functional fixedness?
This psychologist proposed the idea of a language acquisition device.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Howard Gardner proposed this theory of intelligence.
What is multiple intelligences theory?
The misinformation effect was researched heavily by this psychologist.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
Memories of personal life experiences are known as this type of long-term memory.
What is episodic memory?
Suddenly realizing the answer to a problem is known as this.
What is insight?
The rules for combining words into sentences are called this.
What is syntax?
This intelligence test is commonly used for adults.
What is the WAIS?
Remembering the first and last items best in a list demonstrates this effect.
What is the serial position effect?
This brain structure is heavily involved in forming new explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This bias causes people to search for information that supports their beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This hypothesis suggests language influences the way we think.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis/linguistic relativity?
The tendency for scores to rise over generations is known as this effect.
What is the Flynn Effect?
This memory bias involves remembering past events as more predictable than they actually were.
What is hindsight bias?