Perception & Sensation
This is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.
What is perception?
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, or ideas.
What is a concept?
The model of memory involving encoding, storage, and retrieval.
What is the information-processing model?
The process of getting information into memory.
What is encoding?
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and adapt to new situations.
What is intelligence?
The tendency to perceive objects as unchanging despite changes in sensory input.
What is perceptual constancy?
The most typical example of a category, used for comparison.
What is a prototype?
The memory stage that briefly holds sensory information.
What is sensory memory?
This type of encoding involves the meaning of words and concepts.
What is semantic encoding?
The psychologist who developed the first modern intelligence test.
Who is Alfred Binet?
The brain's use of prior knowledge and expectations to interpret sensory info.
What is top-down processing?
A problem-solving method that guarantees a solution but may be inefficient.
What is an algorithm?
Also known as working memory, this temporarily stores and manipulates information.
What is short term memory?
The tendency to recall information better when in the same context or state.
What is context-dependent (or state-dependent) memory?
A test that predicts future performance and capacity to learn.
What is an aptitude test?
Inattentional blindness and change blindness are examples of this perceptual limitation.
What is selective attention?
The tendency to search for or favor information that confirms our beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
Memories of facts and experiences we can consciously declare.
What is explicit memory (or declarative memory)?
The disruptive effect of new information on the recall of old information.
What is retroactive interference?
The statistical consistency of a test’s results.
What is reliability?
This binocular cue helps us perceive depth by comparing images from both eyes.
What is retinal disparity?
Making judgments based on how well something matches our existing prototype.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
The brain structure involved in forming new explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This term refers to the inability to form new memories after brain damage.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The psychologist who proposed a triarchic theory of intelligence.
Who is Robert Sternberg?