Miscellaneous
The capacity to pay attention to several stimuli at once
What is Divided attention?
The system of rules governing the structure and use of a language
What is Grammar?
Things help you remember pieces of information!
What is Retrieval Cues?
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?
An obstacle to problem solving involving the failure to use an object in an unusual way.
What is Functional fixedness?
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?
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?
A super clear memory of an significant moment
What is a flashbulb memory?
When our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.
What is parallel processing?
Types of General intelligence tests
What is The Stanford-Binet, WAIS, and WISC tests?
The initial experience of perceiving and learning information
What is encoding?
The smallest unit of sound
What is a Phoneme?
A phenomenon that refers to the finding that retrieval practice, or actively recalling information from memory.
What is the Testing Effect?
Identify the hypothesis that language determines the way we think and provide an example.
What is linguistic determinism?
The earliest stage of speech development
What is babbling?
A sudden realization of the solution to a problem.
What is Insight?
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?
The mental frameworks or structures that we use to organize and interpret information in our environment.
What is Schemas?
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?
The capacity to concentrate on a single speaker in a crowded room
What is Selective attention?
Part of the brain that helps form procedural memories.
What is the Basal Ganglia?
The region of the brain that is important for language development & responsible for the comprehension of speech
What is the Wernicke’s Area?
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?
The three types of effortful processing strategies.
What is chunking, mnemonics, and hierarchies?
The incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event
What is the Misinformation effect?