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Memory
Storage & Retrieval
Forgetting & Memory Construction
Thinking
Language
100

Name the three parts of memory.

Sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

100

This is the process of paying attention to information and moving it from sensory--> short term memory-->long term memory

Encoding

100
A person got in a car accident and now can't make any new memories. 

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 our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.

What is parallel processing?

200
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
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

Name two study effects that result in long-term memory retention.

What is the testing and spacing effect?

300
Identify three ways of measuring retention and define each.
What is recall, recognition, and relearning?
300

After learning lists of nonsense syllables, this scientist developed a curve that discussed retention.

What is Ebbinghaus?

300
Identify three of the five main components of creativity as we discussed in class.
What are expertise, imaginative thinking skills, a venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, and a creative environment.
300
System of rules that enables us to communicate with one another.
What is grammar?
400

Identify the two subtypes of declarative (explicit) memory.

Episodic and sematic memories

400

The brain region that is equivalent to a "save" button for explicit memories.

What is the hippocampus?

400
Identify three kinds of forgetting and define them.
What are encoding failure, storage decay, 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 three kinds of effortful processing strategies.

What is chunking, mnemonics, and hierarchies?

500
Brain structure involved in memory of motor movements.
What is the basal ganglia?
500

Incorporating misleading info into one’s memory of an event


What is the misinformation effect?

500

A cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used.

What is functional fixedness?

500
Identify and explain the four stages of language development in babies.
What are babbling stage, one-word stage, two-word stage, and telegraphic speech?