Mind Over Matter
This type of memory is described as brief storage.
What is Short Term Memory?
This is the minimum stimulus needed to perceive a particular stimulus half of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
This is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
What is Intelligence?
This is a group of similar concepts that we learn over time and can adapt and change.
What is a Schema?
This kind of failure is when you remember something wrong.
What is Encoding Failure?
This type of encoding strategy is when you separate information into chunks.
What is Chunking?
This type of processing is an analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and transmits information up to the brain for processing.
What is Bottom-Up Processing?
This theory of intelligence was coined by Charles Spearman and says that people have two parts of their intelligence S factor and G factor.
What is General Intelligence?
This is when you tend to search for info that confirms one's perceptions and disregard information that denies it.
What is Confirmation Bias?
This type of memory loss is when you cannot remember memories from your past.
What is Retrograde Amnesia?
This type of memory is your knowledge of language and information made from formal education.
What is Semantic Memory?
This is the inability to see changes in our environment when our attention is directed elsewhere.
What is Change Blindness?
This type of test is used to predict a person's future performance capacity to learn.
What is an Aptitude Test?
This is when people judge the likelihood or frequency of an event based on how easily examples of info about it come to mind.
What is Availability Heuristic?
This curve demonstrates how much we forget something each day.
What is the Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve?
This type of automatic encoding occurs when an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it.
What are Flashbulb Memories?
This is the perception of movement from rapid progression of images.
What is Stroboscopic Motion?
This is the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.
What is Content Validity?
The tendency to approach a problem in a way that was successful in the past but not now.
What is a Mental Set?
This type of interference is when your old info interferes with your ability to remember new info.
What is Proactive Interference?
This kind of memory is what can be seen and is home of Eidetic Imagery.
What is Iconic Memory?
This is when two lines of the same length appear to be different lengths.
What is the Muller Lyer Illusion?
This is the scale used to assess adult intelligence.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?
This is when you continue an action despite it being more beneficial to end it.
What is Sunk Cost Falacy?
This is when different wording can affect how you remember something.
What is the Misinformation Effect?