Intro to Memory & Intelligence
What is encoding?
Process of putting info into the memory system
What is Distributed Practice?
Strategy of learning that makes use of smaller increments of study over a long period of time.
What is Iconic Memory?
Sensory input to the visual system.
What is Memory Consolidation?
Process where our brains convert short-term into long-term memories.
Smallest meaningful unit of sound in a language.
What is intelligence?
Ability to learn, aquire knowledge and use resources to problem-solve.
What are Mnemonic Devices?
Encoding strategies used to organize/chunk to-be-learned information to make it easier to remember.
What is Haptic Memory?
Sensory memory used by sense of touch.
What is Long-Term Potentiation?
The strengthening of a synaptic connection that happens when the synapse of one neuron repeatedly fires and excites another.
What are Morphemes?
Smallest pairing of meaning given to any set of sounds.
What is Fluid Intelligence?
Ability to reason and think flexibly
Involves using the 1st letters of a list of to-be-learned items to create a meaningful and/or odd sentence.
What is Shallow Processing?
Intake of the physical qualities of something.
What is Trace Decay Theory?
Over time, memories biologically degenerate.
What is Skinner's Theory of Language Acquisition?
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
Accumulation of knowledge, facts and skills acquired through life.
What is Peg Word System?
When we attach meaning to information and create associations between new and existing memories.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
Person is unable to create new memories after an amnesia-inducing event.
What is the Inborn Universal Grammar Theory?
What is G-Factor?
General intelligence. The General cognitive ability that can be measured and expressed.
Association of words on a list with visualization of places on a familiar path.
What is Semantic Encoding?
Encoding meaning of words and likening it to a similar meaning word.
What is Serial Position Effect?
What are Critical Periods for Language?
Childhood.