Language
What is the term for our spoken, written, or gestured works and the way we combine them to communicate meaning?
What is language?
What is a system that encodes, stores and retrieves information?
What is memory?
What is the part of the brain that seems to play a role in strengthening memories that have strong emotional connections?
What is the amygdala?
What is the term for a rule of thumb strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently?
What is a heuristic?
What man was named after the section in the brain that is able to comprehend speech?
Who is Carl Wernicke?
What is the term for, in language, is the smallest unit that carries meaning?
What is a morpheme?
What is the effect that we remember things more at the beginning or the end of a sequence rather than the middle?
What is the serial position effect?
What do you use when you must retrieve the information from your memory?
(i.e. fill-in-the-blank test)
What is recall?
What is the term for tending to approach a problem in a certain way?
(Hint: This is a problem with heuristics)
What is a mental set?
What is the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language?
What is the babbling stage?
What is the idea that the way information is encoded affects how well it is remembered?
(Hint: it's a theory)
What is Levels-of-Processing theory?
What type of amnesia is where someone is not able to recall the events of BEFORE the development of said amnesia?
What is retrograde amnesia?
(If you said anterograde amnesia you get a consoling pat on the back)
What is the term for the process by which people translate incoming information into a form they can understand?
What is assimilation?
Who invented the 3 Stage Memory Model?
(Hint: It's two people.)
Who are Atkinson and Shiffrin?
What is the theory that concepts are universal and influence the development of language?
What is cognitive universalism?
What can happen when you ask a leading question about an incident that happened a while back?
(i.e. About how fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other.)
What is the misinformation effect?
Name 5 of the 7 "sins of forgetting" according to Schacter.
What are transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and/or persistence?
What is the term for imprecise mental classifications that develop out of our everyday experiences?
What is natural concepts?
Who emphasized the importance of the spacing effect?
(spacing effect: The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.)
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
What is a mental structure that facilitates the learning of language because it is preprogrammed with fundamental language rules?
What is the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) Schema?
What is the term for when you put yourself in the same place you study the material when you take the test?
What is context-dependent memory?
What was special about Henry Molaison (H.M.) and Clive Wearing?
What is they both suffered from retrograde and anterograde amnesia?
(Also accept - can't form new or old memories)
What is an example of an availability heuristic?
What is a plane crash?
(Just one example)
Who said short-term memory can retain 7 short pieces of information?
(Hint: AKA chunking)
Who is George Miller?