Perception
When one object blocks the view of another, it is perceived as being in front
What is interposition?
A logical step by step method of solving a problem that guarantees a solution... eventually
What is an algorithm?
Memories are more easily retrieved in the same location where it was encoded
What is context dependent memory?
"mental age" test for French school children
What is the Stanford-Binet?
Participants have a right to a full explanation of the study when its concluded
What is debriefing?
2 variables move in the same direction
What is positive correlation?
The ability to focus on a conversation in a loud room
What is selective attention?
Tendency to see objects only for their most common purpose
What is functional fixedness?
Items in the middle are forgotten more often than items at the beginning/end
What is serial position effect?
The gradual rise in IQ scores over the past 70 years
What is the Flynn Effect?
Memories of skills or habits that don't require conscious retrieval
Procedural (I will take implicit)
Stick with something b/c you already put so much into it
What is sunk cost fallacy?
The brain fills in missing information to create a complete picture (Gestalt)
What is closure?
Something is more likely to occur when we have a vivid example
What is availability heuristic?
The ability to recall facts
What is semantic memory?
Charles Spearman's theory that smart people are good at most things
What is General Factor (or G Factor)?
A controlled procedure designed to support or disprove a hypothesis
What is an experiment?
A test generates consistent results
What is reliability?
Eyes move inward as objects get closer
What is convergence?
Skills that help us organize, learn, and manage daily life
What is executive functioning?
Loss of past memories
What is retrograde amnesia?
Test scores go down when there is anxiety that membership will hurt performance
What is stereotype threat?
Test that measures an individual's potential to learn
What is aptitude test?
A measurement of how far scores are spread out from the mean
What is standard deviation?
Study that measured depth perception in infants
What is visual cliff?
Exposure to one stimulus influences perceptions of future stimulus
What is priming?
What is proactive interference?
How well a test estimates future performance
What is predictive validity?
The measurable outcome of a study (what's being studied)
What is dependent variable?
Making the dependent variable measurable so a study can be replicated
What is operational definition?
2 or more blinking lights create the perception of motion
What is Phi Phenomenon?
Modifying/expanding an existing schema to include new information
What is assimilation?
increase in a neural connections & firing after consistent rehearsal
What is long-term potentiation?
Administering the same test at 2 different times to measure reliability
What is test-retest reliability?
A result is unlikely to obtained due to chance
What is is statistical significance?
Outside circumstances that impact the results of the study
What are confounding variables?