Miscellaneous
Language
Storage & Retrieval
Memory
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100

The capacity to pay attention to several stimuli at once

What is Divided attention?

100

The system of rules governing the structure and use of a language

What is Grammar?

100

Things help you remember pieces of information!

What is Retrieval Cues?

100

A type of long-term memory that is remembered unconsciously - Procedural memory is the memory of how to do repetitive everyday tasks.

What is Implicit Memory?

100

An obstacle to problem solving involving the failure to use an object in an unusual way.

What is Functional fixedness?

200

The type of amnesia that involves the loss of memory for events that occurred prior to a specific point in time.

What is Retrograde amnesia?

200

Between the ages 1-2, child speaks mostly in single words Whole idea can be expressed in one word

What is the One-Word Stage?

200

A super clear memory of an significant moment

What is a flashbulb memory?

200

When our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.

What is parallel processing?

200

Types of General intelligence tests

What is The Stanford-Binet, WAIS, and WISC tests?

300

The initial experience of perceiving and learning information

What is encoding?

300

The smallest unit of sound

What is a Phoneme?

300

A phenomenon that refers to the finding that retrieval practice, or actively recalling information from memory.

What is the Testing Effect?

300

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

What is linguistic determinism?

300

The earliest stage of speech development

What is babbling?

400

A sudden realization of the solution to a problem.

What is Insight?

400

The first few years of life constitute the time during which language develops readily and after which language acquisition is much more difficult and ultimately less successful.

What are Critical Periods for Language?

400

The mental frameworks or structures that we use to organize and interpret information in our environment.

What is Schemas?

400

Learning is more effective when studying is spread out over time, rather than studying the material all at once in a single session.

What is the spacing effect?

400

The capacity to concentrate on a single speaker in a crowded room

What is Selective attention?

500

Part of the brain that helps form procedural memories.

What is the Basal Ganglia?

500

The region of the brain that is important for language development & responsible for the comprehension of speech

What is the Wernicke’s Area?

500

When a person is unable to immediately recall a word or name that they know is stored in their memory.

What is the Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon?

500

The three types of effortful processing strategies.

What is chunking, mnemonics, and hierarchies?

500

The incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event

What is the Misinformation effect?