Acing the exam
Where's my librarian
Rent a space
Give me a clue
I forgot
My thinking cap
Hey, y'all
100

Retrieving information that was learned at a previous time (dare I hope...)

what is recall

100

The process of getting information into our memory system

what is encoding

100

retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know (also called declarative memory)

what is explicit memory

100

The activation , often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory

What is priming

100

I hit my head and can no longer form new memories

What is anterograde amnesia

100

all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating

what is cognition

100

In language, the smallest distinctive sound

what is a phoneme

200

Identifying items that were previously learned (I am so confident in your ability to do this!)_

What is recognition

200

The process of retaining, encoded information (you will AP Psych memories years from now)

what is storage

200

The retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection

What is implicit memory

200

The principle that our context-dependent memories are affected by detailed cues

what is the encoding specificity principle

200

I am sorry Mr. Jackson I bumped my head and can no longer recall any of the material from our class

what is retrograde amnesia

200

"I am the best example of an AP Psychology student!"

what is a prototype

200

In language, the smallest unit that carries meaning (a word or part of a word)

what is a morpheme

300

What we are doing now, i.e., learning something more quickly the 2nd time around

what is relearning

300

I will use this to recall my fave moments in AP Psych-- (the other type of explicit, conscious memory is semantic)

what is episodic memory

300

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

what is effortful processing

300

The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current or bad mood

What is mood-congruent memory

300

The famous graph that demonstrates that forgetting is initially rapid but then levels off with time

What is the Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve

300

On the AP exam, students will be asked to use this kind of thinking to discern the correct answer in MCQs

what is convergent thinking

300

At four months, I began this language stage

what is the babbling stage

400

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units-- which often occurs automatically

what is chunking

400

A new concept of short-term memory that includes active processing of incoming information and of information retrieved from long-term memory

what is working memory

400

The area of the brain that processes and stores effortful processing and explicit memories (semantic and episodic)

What are the hippocampus and frontal lobes

400

The tendency to recall best the last (recency effect) and the first (primacy effect) items in a list

What is the serial position effect

400

I am sorry, Mr. Jackson, I just have learned so much that I can't recall any new information

what is proactive interference

400

On the FRQ portion of the AP exam, students will have more of an opportunity to be creative problem-solvers with this kind of thinking

What is divergent thinking

400

At two, I used sophisticated language like "go car"

what is telegraphic speech

500

Processing only surface level information (memorizing)

Shallow Processing

500

Taking a picture of our class at this very moment would utilize this

What is iconic memory

500

The area of the brain where automatic processing occurs and where implicit memories take place

What are the cerebellum (and basal ganglia)

500

I will never forget the day I was overwhelmed with emotion at scoring a 5 on the AP Psychology exam

What is a flashbulb memory

500

Wow, Mr. Jackson, our most recent unit was so fascinating that I cannot recall anything from the previous units

what is retroactive interference

500

When you don't have the opportunity or need to utilize a methodical, rule-driven problems-solving strategy-- an algorithm-- you might use this thinking strategy instead

what is a heuristic (representative or availability)

500

An impairment of language, usually caused by damage to the left hemisphere

what is aphasia

600

The tendency for distributed practice to yield better results than massed practice, or cramming

what is the spacing effect

600

When misleading information distorts one's memory of an event (remember Lotus and leading questions when asked questions about an accident)

what is the misinformation effect

600

A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore contradictory evidence

"How could we not be Mr. Jackson's favorite class?!"

what is confirmation bias

600

An area in the left hemisphere of the frontal lobe involved in language expression

What is Broca's area

700

Enhanced memory after retrieving rather than simply rereading information (there is a reason for homework and projects)

what is the testing effect

700

Gee, Mr. Jackson, I have a funny feeling that we may have covered this previously

what is deja vu

700

Located in the left temporal lobe, a brain area involved particularly in language comprehension

what  is Wernicke's area

800

To yield the best retention, encoding information semantically (semantic memory)

What is deep processing

800

(Whorf's hypothesis) that language controls the way we think and interpret our world

what is linguistic determinism (a less rigid theory called linguistic influence evolved from it)