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What are the 3 parts of memory?
encoding, storage, and retrieval
What is the name of a memory about a emotionally significant event?
flashbulb memory
What is it called when we have a memory of something that didn't even happen?
false memory
What word best describes the mental processes involved in remembering, thinking, and knowing?
cognition
What is the smallest distinct sound unit in language?
phonemes
Jacob is able to connect the new information he’s learning to the old information. What term best describes what is happening here?
working memory
What are the two areas of the brain play the biggest roles in explicit memory?
frontal lobes & hippocampus
What word can you use to describe the way a situation is presented to you?
framing
What is the early speech stage when children use mostly verbs and nouns?
telegraphic speech/two-word stage
When someone provides their phone number to another person, they usually pauses after the area code and again after the next three numbers. This pattern shows what memory principle?
chunking
Why are you more likely to remember sad memories when you are sad and happy memories when you are happy?
mood congruent memory
Sally can recall the past, but it has been seven years since she had a brain infection, and she is unable to create new long-term memories. Which form of amnesia is represented by this instance?
anterograde amnesia
What is it called when you suddenly know the problems solution?
insight
What was Skinner's language acquisition theory?
social learning theory
What are the three types of memory codes?
acoustic, visual, and semantic
After a ten-year absence, Annie returns to see her grandparents. What term best describes the flood of memories of her childhood visits?
priming
What does the forgetting curve by Herman Ebbinghaus reveal about how storage decay works?
the rate of forgetting decreases as time goes on
What is the greatest way to condense the list of potential solutions to an issue in order to choose the best one?
convergent thinking
What is the name of the "secret twin language"?
cryptophasia
What are the three types of long-term memory?
episodic, procedural, and semantic
What is an increase in the cell's firing potential after brief rapid stimulation called?
Sarah goes to school everyday, and she know there are ten tables in her classroom. When her mom asked her how many tables there are, she had a hard time answering the question. Which term best describes this scenario?
encoding failure
How does adrenaline affect your brain?
it enhance your memory
How does adrenaline affect your brain?
it enhances your memory