Perception
Focusing on one specific stimulus while ignoring others, such as listening to a friend in a noisy room.
What is selective attention?
When trying to find your lost keys, you quickly check common spots without systematically searching the whole house.
What is a heuristic?
Spacing out studying over a week rather than cramming improves your long-term recall.
What is the spacing effect?
The idea that there is one underlying overall intelligence can be represented by this letter.
What is 'g'?
This refers to the process of pouring or squeezing juices over a turkey while it's cooking to help keep it moist.
What is basting?
You return to your bedroom after leaving for five minutes and don’t notice that your posters have been rearranged.
What is change blindness?
You follow a recipe exactly step by step, ensuring the cake comes out perfectly every time.
What is an algorithm?
You ride a bike without thinking about each motion, even years after learning. This type of memory is represented.
What is implicit/procedural memory?
A teacher uses this type of test to measure how much students have learned in history class.
What is an achievement test?
According to a poll, this Thanksgiving side dish is the least popular among Americans.
What is green bean casserole?
You can tell that one building is in front of another just by noticing that it partially blocks the other.
What is interposition?
You brainstorm as many ideas as possible for a science fair project, even if some seem silly.
What is divergent thinking?
After learning a new password, you start forgetting your old password.
What is retroactive interference?
A historian’s ability to recall facts and dates from decades of studying is an example of this.
What is crystallized intelligence?
This movie holds the record for the highest-grossing weekend in Thanksgiving history.
What is Frozen 2?
You see a collection of dots arranged in a circle and perceive the circle as a whole rather than separate dots. This gestalt principle is represented.
What is closure?
Seeing a quiet, bookish person and assuming they must be a good student because they fit your stereotype
What is representative heuristic?
A person can recite a list of words from the beginning and end but struggles with words in the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
These are the 3 types of intelligence outlined in Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.
What is analytical, creative, and practical?
These two NFL teams have played a game on every single Thanksgiving Day since 1966.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
At a loud party, you are focused on a conversation with a friend, but you suddenly hear your name mentioned across the room and your attention immediately shifts.
What is the cocktail party effect?
You group dogs, cats, and rabbits into one mental category called ‘pets.'
What is a concept?
You use this effortful processing strategy to organize your shopping list into categories like fruits, dairy, and snacks to remember it better.
What is chunking?
A student takes the same math test on two different days under similar conditions and gets nearly the same score both times. The test has strong this.
What is reliability?
In this year, the first ever Thanksgiving was celebrated.
What is 1621?