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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 Memento 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 our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.
What is parallel processing?
200

This seahorse-shaped structure in the brain is essential for forming new memories and is often one of the first areas affected in Alzheimer’s disease.


What is the hippocampus?

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

These are the smallest units of meaning in a language, including prefixes, suffixes, and root words, such as "un-" in "undo."

What are morphemes?

300
A certain kind of study effect that results in long-term memory retention.
What is the spacing effect?
300

This type of long-term memory involves conscious recall of facts and events, such as remembering the date of the Declaration of Independence.


What is the explicit memory?

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
Classically conditioned associations among stimuli and procedural memories for certain kinds of skills.
What is automatic processing?
400
After this has occurred, passing an electric current through the brain won't disrupt old memories.
What is long-term potentiation?
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, define, and give examples of three kinds of effortful processing strategies.
What is chunking, mnemonics, and hierarchies?
500
Identify three ways of measuring retention and define each.
What is recall, recognition, and relearning?
500
When Piaget attributed a memory to his own experiences instead of his nursemaid's stories, he experienced an example of this.
What is source amnesia?
500
The matchstick problem is an example of this kind of fixation.
What is a mental set?
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?