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What is Memory?
How do we retrieve memories?
Why does memory sometimes fail us?
Things related to language
What abilities do good thinkers possess?
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Any system-human, animal, or machine- that encodes, stores, and retrieves information.
What is memory?
100
Memory that has been processed with attention and can be consciously recalled.
What is explicit memory?
100
A graph plotting the amount of retention and forgetting over time for a certain batch of material such as a list of nonsense syllables.
What is forgetting curve?
100

Sounds like "ch" and "th" would be called

Phonemes

100
Cognitive strategies or "rules of thumb" used as shortcuts to solve complex mental tasks.
What is heuristics?
200

The process of memory contains three process that the brain does. As a hint, the second process would include sensory, short term, and long term memory.

Encoding, storage, and retrieval 

200
A memory that was not deliberately learned or of which you have no conscious awareness.
What is implicit memory?
200
A cause of forgetting by which newly learned information prevents retrieval of previously stored material.
What is retroactive interference?
200


"-ed" and "-s" and "-ing" are all examples of 

Morphemes

200
The inability to perceive a new use for an object associated with a different purpose.
What is functional fixedness?
300
The third of three memory stages, with the largest capacity and longest duration.
What is long-term memory?
300

Memories of events that were emotional and shocking are easily to recall and are known as

Flashbulb Memories

300
The distortion of memory by suggestion or misinformation.
What is misinformation effect?
300

If a person who had a stroke struggled to understand what people were saying to them, may have damage to their:

Wernicke's Area

300
A faulty heuristic strategy that estimates probabilities based on information that can be recalled from personal experience.
What is availability bias?
400

A form of encoding that requires you to put in effort and attention is known as

effortful processing

400

A list I have to memorize is "4, 8, 10, 4, 9, 5, 2, 12, 6, 7, 3, 11." I am most likely to remember 4,8,10,7,3,11

Serial Positioning Effect
400

You weren't paying attention when Mrs. Ranew taught you about Somnambulism, so now you have no idea what that is. The lack of processing and storage of that memory would known as an

encoding failure

400

An example of something a child in the two-word stage would say

any noun+verb

400
Mental representations of categories of items or ideas, based on experience.
What is concepts?
500

Repeated use of certain memories cause a change in the neurons of our brain which is known as

long-term potentiation 

500

I believe I failed my AP Psych exam because Mrs. Ranew made me take it room 210 instead of her room. I couldn't use my:

Context Dependent Memory

500

75 year Jenny does not do well at her local restaurants trivia night because she lacks ____ and cannot answer the questions fast enough.

fluid intelligence

500

Knowing I'm talking about crying when I text you about my "tears" and not about ripping up a piece of paper is related to study of word meaning known as

Semantics

500

If a person scores well on the SAT, seems to be a great writer, is really good at working with people, this person must have high

general intelligence