memory
learning that persists over time
What is memory?
all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is cognition?
the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
What is intelligence?
What is encoding?
our spoken, written or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
What is language?
organizing items into familiar, manageable units
What is chunking?
the ability to produce new and valuable ideas
What is creativity?
according to Charles Spearman _____, underlies specific mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test
What is general intelligence?
the second step, the process of retaining encoded information over time
What is storage?
early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram
What is telegraphic speech?
the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention
What is spacing effect?
a mental image or best example of a category
What is prototype?
the passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long term goals
What is grit?
the process of getting information out of memory storage
What is retrieval?
the stage ranging in 1-2 years during which a child speaks mostly in single words
What is one-word stage?
encoding on a basic level
What is shallow processing?
creative thinking that diverges in different directions
What is divergent thinking?
condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill
What is savant syndrome?
the immediate, brief recording of sensory info in the memory system
What is short term memory?
the smallest distinctive sound unit
What is phoneme?
What is recall?
a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
What is concept?
the theory that classifies our intelligence into analytical, creative, and practical
What is the Stenberg's Triarchic Theory?
retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection
What is implicit memory?
impairment of language
What is aphasia?