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Memory
Storage & Retrieval
Forgetting & Memory Construction
Thinking
Language
100
Learning that has persisted over time; information that has been acquired, stored, and can be retrieved.
What is memory?
100
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
100

A scene from the movie 50 First Dates which depicts this kind of disability.

What is anterograde amnesia?

100
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people.
What is a concept?
100
Smallest distinctive sound units in a language.
What are phonemes?
200

When you repeat information to try to memorize it. 

What is maintenance rehearsal?

200

Strengthening of a synaptic connection that happens when the synapse of one neuron repeatedly fires ad excites another neuron

What is long-term potentiation?

200
When prior learning disrupts your recall of new information.
What is proactive interference?
200
Narrows the available solutions to determine the best solution.
What is convergent thinking?
200
Deriving meaning from sounds.
What is semantics?
300
A certain kind of study effect that results in long-term memory retention.
What is the spacing effect?
300
The brain's equivalent of a "save" button for explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
300

The process of taking individual pieces of information and grouping them into larger units.

What is Chunking?

300

Identify three obstacles to problem solving. 

Mental set, functional fixedness, confirmation bias, belief perseverance, overconfidence, hindsight bias, framing

300
System of rules that enables us to communicate with one another.
What is grammar?
400

Classically conditioned associations among stimuli and procedural memories for certain kinds of skills.

What is automatic processing OR implicit memory?

400

System in your brain that allows you to temporarily retain and manipulate the stored information involved in a complex process

What is working memory?

400

Identify TWO kinds of forgetting and define them.

What are encoding failure and retrieval failure?

400
When no problem-solving strategy seems to work we arrive at a solution with this.
What is insight?
400
Identify the hypothesis that language determines the way we think and provide an example.
What is linguistic determinism?
500

Identify, define, and give examples of two kinds of effortful processing strategies.

What are chunking and mnemonics?

500
Identify three ways of measuring retention and define each.
What is recall, recognition, and relearning?
500

Identify and explain the three levels of processing. 

What is structural, phonemic, and semantic?

(Shallow and Deep Processing also acceptable)

500

Mental image or the best example of a specific concept or category

What is a prototype?

500

Identify and explain the four stages of language development in babies.

What are babbling stage, one-word stage, two-word stage, and "longer phrases" (telegraphic) speech?