Memory: How It Functions and Parts of the Brain
Memory: Problems and Ways to Enhance
Cognition, Language, and Problem Solving
The Intelligence Quotient
More from Ch. 7 and 8
100

This involves the input of information into the memory system.

What is encoding?

100

The inability to remember new information after the point of trauma

What is anterograde amnesia?

100

Continue trying different solutions until the problem is solved

What is trial and error?

100

A learning disability which causes difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics.

What is dyscalculia?

100

Knowing how to do something. For example, knowing how to get home after school if the road you usually take is blocked off is an example of ___________ intelligence.

What is fluid intelligence?

200

If part of one area of the brain involved in memory is damaged, another part of the same area can take over that memory function.

What is the equipotentiality hypothesis?

200

The effects of misinformation from external sources which leads to the creation of false memories

What is suggestibility?

200

Direct observation and indirect knowledge are part of this concept. 

What are natural concepts?

200

Test(s) used to measure intelligence (named after scientists who developed/modified them).

What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale?

What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?

200

A communication system that involves using words and systematic rules to organize those words to transmit information from one individual to another.

What is language?

300

The transfer of information from short-term memory to long-term memory.

What is memory consolidation?

300

Name three types of ways to study effectively.

What are 1) elaborate rehearsal 2) the self-reference effect 3) disturbed practice 4) rehearse 5) study efficiently 6) Beware of interference 7) keep moving 8) get enough sleep 9) make mnemonic devices

300

A set of routine or automatic behaviors.

What is event schema (cognitive script)?

300

Knowing facts when you learn, remember, and recall information.

What is crystalized intelligence?

300

Persistence in approaching a problem in a way that has worked in the past.

What is a mental set?

400

Memories of facts and events we can consciously remember and recall are considered:

What are Explicit (declarative) Memories?

400

Techniques to help make sure information goes from short-term memory to long-term memory.

What are memory-enhancing strategies?

400

Proficiency at acquiring language is maximal early in life.

What is the critical period?

400

The three theories of intelligence, according to Sternberg.

What is the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence: Practical, Analytical, and Creative?

400

The process of bringing up old memories.

What is reconstruction?

500

When strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories and weaker emotional experiences form weaker memories.

What is arousal theory?

500

When old information hinders the recall of newly learned information

What is proactive interference?

500

The bias tendency to focus on information which reinforces your existing beliefs

What is confirmation bias?

500

Eugenics involved these three "sciences."

What are racial taxonomies, phrenology, and social Darwinism?

500

According to Schacter (2001), transience, suggestibility, and persistence are examples of these types of memory errors.

What are the 7 Sins of Memory?