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The forgotten era
100
This is when we fail to see visible objects when our attention is directed to a particular stimuli.
What is Inattentional Blindness?
100
These higher order thinking skills include organizing, planning, generating, and implementing goal-directed behavior.
What are executive functions?
100
The process of getting information into the memory system.
What is encoding?
100
This type of memory deals with the fleeting sensory memory of visual stimuli from the eye.
What is iconic memory?
100
An inability to remember any information of your past.
What is retrograde amnesia?
200
Related to the first question in this category, this is the failure to notice CHANGES in a given environment.
What is change blindness?
200
A thinking strategy - mental shortcut - that allow us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently.
What is heuristic?
200
Processing multiple aspects of a stimulus or problem simultaneously.
What are parallel processing?
200
This effect explains the tendency to recall the first and last items on a list while the middle items get lost.
What is the serial position effect?
200
The inability to form any new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
This principle explains the ability to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
What is gestalt?
300
The tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions, ignoring contradictory evidence.
What is the confirmation bias?
300
Retrieving a skill such as tying your shoes is an example of ______________ memory.
What is implicit?
300
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current mood.
What is mood-congruent memory?
300
This occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading prompts or questions.
What is the misinformation effect?
400
An example of this term would be when we think of a bird, we tend to create mental images that best exemplifies that particular category, such as a crow.
What is a prototype?
400
Imagining someone who likes to read poetry as a professor rather than a truck driver is an example of ________________ heuristics.
What is representative heuristics?
400
Never Eat Soggy Waffles.
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.
SohCahToa.
These are all examples of ___________________.
What are mnemonics?
400
The idea that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it. This principle is called ________________________.
What is the encoding specificity principle?
400
The two different kinds of interference, ________________ and _________________, explain the disruption of recalling new information due to prior learning and vice versa.
What is proactive and retroactive?
500
A _____________ is a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. (Ex. dolls are for girls)
What are schema?
500
A person who believes in the tooth-fairy refuses to acknowledge clear evidence to the contrary and clings to their beliefs. This is an example of ________________________.
What is belief perseverance?
500
Retrieving the knowledge that WWII ended in 1945 is an example of __________________ memory, while retrieving the memory of your last birthday is an example of __________________ memory.
What is semantic and episodic?
500
Dani is at a meeting where everyone goes around the table and introduces themselves. By the end, Dani can only remember the names of the last two people. This is an example of the ________________________.
What is the recency effect?
500
Kassandra gets a new phone number. Each time she tries to give someone her new number, she gives her old one instead. Her difficulty recalling the new number due to the persistence of her old number is an example of ___________________.
What is proactive interference?
600
When something does not fit a particular schema, we either INTERPRET the new experiences based on existing schemas or we adapt/change our schemas to INTEGRATE the new information. This is known as _________________ and _________________ (Two answers)
Assimilation and Accommodations
600
This is an example of _______________ thinking.
What is divergent thinking?
600
Name at least two of the brain structures most associated with the creation, retention, and retrieval of memories.
What is the Hippocampus, Amygdala, Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, Frontal Lobe?
600
John has noticed that he does better on his chemistry exams when he takes them in the same seat in which he sits during the class than when he sits in a different seat for the exams. This is known as _______________________ memory.
What is context-dependent memory?
600
Kevin composes what he thinks is a unique original song. When he plays it for his friend Heidi, she tells him that she showed him that song last summer. This is an example of ____________________.
What is source amnesia?