Perception
We perceive this easily because we have two eyes
What is depth?
This means "thinking about thinking"
What is metacognition?
If "recall" is fill-in-the-blank, then "this" is multiple choice
What is recognition?
What is amnesia?
This type of intelligence is all our accumulated knowledge
What is crystallized intelligence?
Linear perspective, texture gradient, and interposition are all examples of this
What are monocular cues?
We use it when we make a decision based on our "gut"
What is intuition?
This is the term for getting a memory into your memory system
What is encoding?
Some painful or unpleasant memories might be loss because of this defense mechanism
What is repression?
This type of test tries to predict your future performance
What is an aptitude test?
A shadow might make a color appear darker, but this is why our brain understands the physical color has not changed
What is color constancy?
This is when we solve a problem though an "aha!" moment
What is insight?
This is a strategy for remembering longer strings of numbers, like a phone number or social security number
What is chunking?
This is when we misremember where we learned or experienced something
What is source amnesia?
A test that measures exactly what it intends to measure is said to have this
What is validity?
This is failing to notice that something is different than how it used to be
What is change blindness?
It's when you can't think of a different use for an item other than its intended use
What is functional fixedness?
It's what we're doing here, instead of trying to do all our studying the night before the AP exam
What is distributed practice?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is why you can't remember your middle school locker combination after learning your high school locker combination
What is retroactive interference?
Researchers who survey the exact same group of people over multiple years are conducting this type of study
What is logintudinal?
When lights turn on and off in a circle, this makes us perceive the light as actually moving
What is phi phenomenon?
These are cognitive skills that involve organizing, planning, and implementing
What are executive functions?
This type of memory includes things that we are consciously, actively using
What is working memory?
Dr. Ebbinghaus drew this to demonstrate how we forget a lot right away, then retain the rest over the long-term
What is the forgetting curve?
The tendency for people today to get higher intelligence scores than people a century ago is known as this
What is the Flynn Effect?