Perception
Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.
Feature detectors
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people.
Concept
Smallest distinctive sound units in a language.
Phonemes
A certain kind of study effect that results in long-term memory retention.
Spacing effect
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.
Standardization
The activation, often unconciously, of certain associations, thus pre-disposing one's perception, memory, or response.
Priming
When our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.
Parallel processing
Deriving meaning from sounds.
Semantics
After learning lists of nonsense syllables, this scientist developed a curve that discussed retention.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
The most widely used intelligence scale; contains verbal and performance subtests.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
What determines our perceptual sets? Where do they come from?
Schemas or experiences
When no problem-solving strategy seems to work we arrive at a solution with this.
Insight
System of rules that enables us to communicate with one another.
Grammar
Identify, define, and give examples of three kinds of effortful processing strategies.
Chunking, mnemonics, and hierarchies
Where a person with limited mental ability has an exceptional skill such as drawing.
Savant Syndrome
The minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of the time.
Difference threshold
Narrows the available solutions to determine the best solution.
Convergent thinking
Identify the hypothesis that language determines the way we think and provide an example.
Linguistic determinism
After this has occurred, passing an electric current through the brain won't disrupt old memories.
Long-term potentiation
Spatial, musical, and linguistic are all aptitude’s of this person’s intelligence theory.
Howard Gardner (Eight intelligences)
Identify the four main types of ESP.
Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis
The matchstick problem is an example of this kind of fixation.
Mental set
Identify and explain the four stages of language development in babies.
Babbling stage, one-word stage, two-word stage, and telegraphic speech.
Brain structure involved in memory of motor movements.
Basal ganglia
The specific way a person's IQ is calculated.
Mental age divided by chronological age then multiply by 100.