Memory Basics
This type of memory briefly holds sensory information.
What is sensory memory?
This brain structure is essential for forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Failure to retrieve information from memory.
What is forgetting?
A mental shortcut used to make quick judgments.
What is a heuristic?
The smallest distinctive sound unit in language.
What is a phoneme?
The memory system used for temporary storage and active thinking.
What is working memory?
This part of the brain helps process emotions tied to memories.
What is the amygdala?
This theory says forgetting occurs because memories fade over time.
What is decay theory?
Fixating on one way of solving a problem is called this.
What is mental set?
The smallest unit of meaning in language.
What is a morpheme?
The process of getting information into memory.
What is encoding?
This type of memory involves skills like riding a bike.
What is procedural memory?
When old information interferes with learning new information.
What is proactive interference?
The tendency to search for evidence supporting beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
This psychologist proposed the language acquisition device.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
A memory technique that groups information together.
What is chunking?
The cerebellum is especially important for this kind of learning.
What is classical conditioning?
The misinformation effect was studied by this psychologist.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
Thinking that is creative and generates many ideas.
What is divergent thinking?
The rules for combining words into sentences.
What is syntax?
Memory of facts and experiences stored long-term.
Memory of facts and experiences stored long-term.
The strengthening of neural connections after learning is called this.
What is long-term potentiation?
The inability to form new memories after brain injury.
What is anterograde amnesia?
A sudden realization to a problem’s solution.
What is insight?
This hypothesis says language influences thinking.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?