Perception
The theory that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Gestalt Principles
Amy had a French babysitter who would speak French around her occasionally. When Amy got to high school, she signed up for French class and learned the language much quicker than her classmates. Amy's rapid learning was most likely due to
Implicit memory
A basic assumption underlying short-term memory is that it is
limited in capacity
Sean looked at a list of presidents. When asked to write down the ones he remembered, he wrote down the first and last presidents. This example best illustrates
The serial position effect
A test that measures a student's potential ability is
An aptitude test
This part of the brain allows both hemispheres to communicate with each other
Corpus callosum
An individual's ability to focus on a particular conversation in a noisy and crowded room is called
Cocktail Party Effect
Desire spent time creating note cards for study for the AP Psych exam. What did Desire use with this study method?
Effortful processing
The brain scans of people with amnesia are most likely to show damage to the
Hippocampus
Who showed that memory loss happens rapidly in the first couple of days and then levels off?
Ebbinghaus forgetting curve
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to measure or predict.
Dr. Zuniga believes that people tend to be introverts due to their social experiences, whereas Dr. Bayze believes that people are isolated because of specific genetic influences. What would you say the debate is between the Doctors?
Nature vs nurture
Using cell phones while driving increases the number of accidents because the use of phones requires
Chuck recalls the day last summer when he fell off his bicycle and scraped his knee. This is an example of
Episodic memory
The retention of encoded information over time
Storage
The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
Retroactive interference
What type of test is designed to measure an individual's knowledge of a subject?
Achievement
What part of the brain controls breathing and heart rate?
Medulla
People listening to rock music played backward often perceive an evil message if specifically told what to listen for. That phenomenon best illustrates
Top-down processing
To help himself remember the name of his new colleague, Hope, Jose thinks about the meaning of her name--the feeling of hopefulness. What concept best corresponds to Jose's strategy?
Semantic encoding
A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test.
Recall
Uma is able to remember a list of items she must buy by creating visual images of the items in various spots in her dorm room. The technique Uma is using is called
The method of loci
Spearman argued that intelligence could be boiled down to one ability known as
General intelligence (g)
Stimulation of what part of the cerebral cortex would result in the experience of sensation from a body part?
Parietal Lobe
Even though it was nearly dark outside, Kaci could still tell that the basketball she was playing was orange. What concept does this example illustrate?
Color constancy
Josie was given a password by her teacher. To remember the password, she repeated it in her mind multiple times until she typed it into her computer moments later. What concept was at work?
Maintenance Rehearsal
Cassidy can only remember the titles of the first few books her teacher told her to get from the library. What concept would explain Cassidy's experience?
The primacy effect
After hearing stories of things they both had and had not actually experienced with "Mr. Science," preschool children spontaneously recalled him doing things that were only mentioned in the story. This best illustrates:
Source amnesia
What phenomenon describes the finding that intelligence scores increased over several decades?
The Flynn effect
What technique do researchers use to inject a harmless, radioactive substance into the living human brain to examine activity?
PET