Memory
The type of memory that involves the conscious recall of facts and events.
What is Explicit Memory
Problem solving strategy that involves trying many possible solutions until one works.
What is an Algorithm
A type of test that measures what you have already learned (unit tests or AP exams)
What are Achievement Tests
The type of memory that involves personal recollection of past events.
What is Episodic Memory
Mental shortcuts used for quick decision making.
What are Heuristics
A mindset that leads people to believe that intelligence can be improved through learning, effort, and practice.
What is Growth Mindset
The effect that causes us to remember the first and last items on a list better than the middle ones.
What is the Serial Position Effect
The tendency to attempt to solve a problem using the same method that has worked before, even if it no longer works.
What is a Mental Set
The kind of intelligence that involves knowing facts, having a good vocabulary, and using knowledge from experiences.
What is Crystalized Intelligence
The effect where people remember information better when study sessions are spaced out rather than crammed.
What is Spacing Effect
The ability to understand and control your own thought processes and problem solving. "Thinking about thinking"
What is Metacognition
The effect that shows that the long term rise of IQ test scores over the last several decades.
What is the Flynn Effect
A memory error that happens when previously learned information disrupts the ability to remember new information.
What is Proactive Interference
A limitation in problem solving that occurs when people can't think of another use for an object because they are focused on it's typical function.
What is Functional Fixedness
A type of research that tests the same people repeatedly over an extended period to track how their intelligence changes.
What is a Longitudinal Study