Perception
Thinking
Language
Memory
Intelligence
100

Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.

Feature detectors

100

Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people.

Concept

100

Smallest distinctive sound units in a language.

Phonemes

100

A certain kind of study effect that results in long-term memory retention.

Spacing effect

100

Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.

Standardization

200

The activation, often unconciously, of certain associations, thus pre-disposing one's perception, memory, or response.

Priming

200

When our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.

Parallel processing

200

Deriving meaning from sounds.

Semantics

200

After learning lists of nonsense syllables, this scientist developed a curve that discussed retention.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

200

The most widely used intelligence scale; contains verbal and performance subtests.

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

300

What determines our perceptual sets? Where do they come from?

Schemas or experiences

300

When no problem-solving strategy seems to work we arrive at a solution with this.

Insight

300

System of rules that enables us to communicate with one another.

Grammar

300

Identify, define, and give examples of three kinds of effortful processing strategies.

Chunking, mnemonics, and hierarchies

300

Where a person with limited mental ability has an exceptional skill such as drawing.

Savant Syndrome

400

The minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of the time.

Difference threshold

400

Narrows the available solutions to determine the best solution.

Convergent thinking

400

Identify the hypothesis that language determines the way we think and provide an example.

Linguistic determinism

400

After this has occurred, passing an electric current through the brain won't disrupt old memories.

Long-term potentiation

400

Spatial, musical, and linguistic are all aptitude’s of this person’s intelligence theory.

Howard Gardner (Eight intelligences)

500

Identify the four main types of ESP.

Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis

500

The matchstick problem is an example of this kind of fixation.

Mental set

500

Identify and explain the four stages of language development in babies.

Babbling stage, one-word stage, two-word stage, and telegraphic speech.

500

Brain structure involved in memory of motor movements.

Basal ganglia

500

The specific way a person's IQ is calculated.

Mental age divided by chronological age then multiply by 100.