Like a Fish in the Ocean...
Retrieving information that was learned at a previous time (dare I hope...).
What is recall?
The process of getting information into our memory system.
What is encoding?
The activation , often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.
What is priming?
I hit my head and can no longer form new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
In language, the smallest distinctive sound.
What is a phoneme?
All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating.
What is cognition?
This is the term used to describe clinging to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited/proven wrong.
What is belief perseverance?
The more you have of it, the less you see.
What's darkness?
Identifying items that were previously learned (I am so confident in your ability to do this!).
What is recognition?
The process of retaining, encoded information (you will remember AP Psych memories years from now).
What is storage?
The tendency to recall best the last (recency effect) and the first (primacy effect) items in a list.
What is the serial position effect?
I am sorry Mr. Sam I bumped my head and can no longer recall any of the material from our class...
What is retrograde amnesia?
In language, the smallest unit that carries meaning (a word or part of a word)
What is a morpheme?
"I am the best example of an AP Psychology student!"
What is a prototype?
This is the way one can affect decisions and judgments by how the question or information is posed.
What is framing?
When I take five and add six, I get eleven, but when I take six and add seven, I get one.
What's a clock?
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units-- which often occurs automatically.
What is chunking?
I will use this to recall my fave moments in AP Psych-- (the other type of explicit, conscious memory is semantic).
What is episodic memory?
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current or bad mood.
What is mood-congruent memory?
The famous graph that demonstrates that forgetting is initially rapid but then levels off with time.
What is the Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve
At four months, I began this language stage.
What is the babbling stage?
On the AP exam, students will be asked to use this kind of thinking to discern the correct answer in MCQs.
What is convergent thinking?
Type of reasoning involving going from specific to general.
What is inductive reasoning?
You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right.
What's your right elbow?
Your Hippocampus is an example of this...
What are mnemonics?
A new concept of short-term memory that includes active processing of incoming information and of information retrieved from long-term memory.
What is working memory?
The principle that our context-dependent memories are affected by detailed cues.
What is the encoding specificity principle?
I am sorry, Mr. Sam, I just have learned so much that I can't recall any new information...
What is proactive interference?
At two, I used sophisticated language like "go boom!"...
What is telegraphic speech?
On the FRQ portion of the AP exam, students will have more of an opportunity to be creative problem-solvers with this kind of thinking.
What is divergent thinking?
This found by dividing mental age and chronological age.
What is IQ?
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.
What's a dozen?
The tendency for distributed practice to yield better results than massed practice, or cramming.
What is the spacing effect?
Taking a picture of our class at this very moment would utilize this...
What is iconic memory?
I will never forget the day I was overwhelmed with emotion at scoring a 5 on the AP Psychology exam.
What is a flashbulb memory?
Wow, Mr. Sam, our most recent unit was so fascinating that I cannot recall anything from the previous units...
What is retroactive interference?
An impairment of language, usually caused by damage to the left hemisphere.
What is aphasia?
When you don't have the opportunity or need to utilize a methodical, rule-driven problems-solving strategy-- an algorithm-- you might use this thinking strategy instead.
What is a heuristic (representative or availability)?
The intellectual age that a person is functioning.
What is mental age?
I have many keys but cannot open any doors.
What's a piano?
Enhanced memory after retrieving rather than simply rereading information (there is a reason for homework and projects)...
What is the testing effect?
Retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know (also called declarative memory).
What is explicit memory?
Gee, Mr. Sam, I have a funny feeling that we may have covered this previously...
What is deja vu?
When misleading information distorts one's memory of an event (remember Lotus and leading questions when asked questions about an accident).
What is the misinformation effect?
An area in the left hemisphere of the frontal lobe involved in language expression.
What is Broca's area?
A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore contradictory evidence
"How could we not be Mr. Sam's favorite class?!"
What is confirmation bias?
Created the first intelligence test.
Who is Binet?
I belong to you but other people use it more than you do.
What's your name?
To yield the best retention, encoding information semantically (semantic memory).
What is deep processing?
The retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection.
What is implicit memory?
Process of remembering several pieces of information by mentally associating an image of each with a different location.
What is method of loci?
This is when one attributes to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. It is essentially the brain trying to make sense of the familiar situation, but the recall process failed.
What is source amnesia?
Located in the left temporal lobe, a brain area involved particularly in language comprehension.
What is Wernicke's area?
This is a sudden realization of a problem’s solution.
What is insight?
Tests that predict someone's ability.
What is an aptitude test?
I'm harder to catch the faster you run.
What's your breath?
What is SQRRR or SQ3R, Survey – Question – Read – Recite – Review.
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
What is effortful processing?
The area of the brain where automatic processing occurs and where implicit memories take place.
What are the cerebellum (and basal ganglia)?
One main reason why memories are so fallible is that our imaginations and expectations are very powerful. When we experience an event, we are also processing what the event means to us and how well the event fits into our schemas and expectations. This causes us to insert imagined circumstances and expectations into the situations. While this helps us understand our experiences better, it does not help us remember situations accurately.
What is dual processing?
(Whorf's hypothesis) that language controls the way we think and interpret our world.
What is linguistic determinism (a less rigid theory called linguistic influence evolved from it)?
This type of thinking would conclude as all dolphins are mammals, all mammals have kidneys; therefore all dolphins have kidneys.
What is deductive reasoning?
He created the theory of multiple intelligences.
Who is Gardner?
This word is always pronounced wrong.
What's wrong?