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Memory
Storage & Retrieval
Forgetting & Memory Construction
Thinking
Intelligence
100
Learning that has persisted over time; information that has been acquired, stored, and can be retrieved.
What is memory?
100

The sensory memory system responsible for the temporary storage and processing of visual information. 

What is iconic memory?

100

A type of memory impairment characterized by the inability to form new memories after a specific event or injury, while memories from before the event remain intact.

What is anterograde amnesia?

100
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people.
What is a concept?
100

This is the procedure that establishes the consistent administration and scoring of a test to create meaningful scores. .

What is Standardization?

200
When our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.
What is parallel processing?
200
Brain structure involved in memory of motor movements.
What is the basal ganglia?
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

The increase in average intelligence test scores observed worldwide over the past century

What is the Flynn Effect?

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

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously recall and declare, also known as declarative memory.

What is explicit memory?

300
After learning lists of nonsense syllables, this scientist developed a curve that discussed retention.
What is Ebbinghaus?
300

Explain the difference between assimilation and accommodation. 

What is interpreting new experiences in terms of our existing schemas (assimilation) vs adapting our current schemas to incorporate new information (accommodation)?

300

The two essential qualities a test must possess to be considered scientifically useful?

What are Reliability and Validity?

400

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

implicit memory 

400

A process of strengthening synaptic connections between neurons, believed to be a cellular mechanism underlying learning and memory. 

What is long-term potentiation?

400
Identify three kinds of forgetting and define them.
What are encoding failure, storage decay, and retrieval failure?
400

The sudden realization or understanding of a problem's solution that contrasts with more incremental problem-solving methods. 

What is insight?

400

This type of test is designed to predict a person's future performance or capacity to learn, as opposed to measuring what they have already learned.

What is an Aptitude Test?

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

Forgetting the source of a memory, such as where or how the information was acquired, while retaining the memory itself.

What is source amnesia?

500
The matchstick problem is an example of this kind of fixation.
What is a mental set?
500

Charles Spearman's term for the single, general intelligence factor underlying all mental abilities.

What is the g factor (General Intelligence)?