Thinking & Problem Solving
Seeing an object for only its original purpose
What is functional fixedness?
"To the store I go" is unusual because it doesn't follow normal English ______.
What is syntax?
Remember the beginning of the list and the end of the list, but forgetting the middle.
What is serial position effect?
The ability to recall memories more successfully when you are in the same mood in which you first created the memory.
What is mood-congruent memory?
Repeating something over and over again in order to retain the memory.
What is Maintenance Rehearsal?
It is a type of creative thinking where a person thinks outside the box.
What is divergent thinking?
The number of phonemes in the word "bats."
What is 4?
The first process of memory according to the information-processing model.
What is encoding?
This person is most associated with the idea of repression.
Who is Sigmund Freud.
The magic number in psychology's memory.
What is 7 +/- 2.
The stereotype that all psychology majors are helpful results in this kind of heuristic.
What is Representativeness.
Noam Chomsky's view that language naturally develops in the brain, which involves universal grammar.
What is the language acquisition device?
An increase in synaptic sensitive and firing after creation of memories
What is Long-term Potentiation (LTP)?
The inability to remember what a penny looks like even though you have seen hundreds in your lifetime.
What is encoding failure.
1 is to bun and 2 is to shoe is an example of this mnemonic device.
What is peg-word method.
Sally won't buy salad dressing that contains 5% fat, but will buy a similar salad dressing that is 95% fat free.
What is framing?
One-word speech in which a baby represents an entire thought with just one word.
What is holophrastic speech?
Area of the brain where implicit memories are stored.
What is the cerebellum?
You have seen so many pictures of the Grand Canyon, you think you actually visited that park.
What is Source Amnesia?
The spacing effect, also known as ____, is the opposite of mass practice.
What is distributed guided practice?
A sudden realization in solving a problem.
What is insight.
The idea that language greatly influences the way we think about things.
What is linguistic determinism (Whorf's Hypothesis)?
Reading an article about a traffic accident makes you think of an accident you were involved in ten years ago.
What is priming or retrieval cue?
Four things that are automatically encoded.
What are frequency, time, space and well-learned information?
The type of encoding that deals with self-reference effects.
What is semantic encoding?