Perception
Using prior knowledge to process sensory information.
What is top down processing?
The best representation of a concept in our mind.
What is prototype?
Memories of our past experiences (life events).
What is episodic?
Processing strategy of spacing out rehearsal over a period time.
What is distributed practice?
Shrek explains to Donkey that Ogres have layers similar to this type of vegetable.
What are onions?
Being able to focus on a conversation in a crowded room.
What is selective attention?
Step by step method that guarantees you solve a problem.
What is algorithm?
Being able to retrieve information by identifying it (like a multiple choice test)
What is recognition?
Tests that predict abilities
What are aptitude tests?
This is where you can you find Pablo, Tyrone, Uniqua, Tasha, and Austin
What is the backyard?
The Backyardigans
Gestalt principle where the brain fills in missing information to perceive a complete object.
What is closure?
"I knew it all along" thinking, people convince themselves they predicted an event before it happened.
What is Hindsight bias?
You probably don't remember because you never learned it! Yeah, you on your phone!
What is encoding failure?
What is functional fixedness?
This video game character went "Turbo" because he was tired of being the bad guy. (Disney)
Who is Wreck it Ralph?
When I first turned on the air fryer it was really loud. A few minutes later I don't hear it because of this phenomena
What is sensory adaptation?
Approaching a mother rather than a large tattooed man to get help in a store would be example of this type of problem solving based on prototypes.
What is representativeness heuristic?
Consciously processing information. You might use mnemonics, chunking, or hierarchies
What is effortful processing?
Seeing a rise in intelligence scores probably based on more education, better health, and access to resources.
What is the Flynn Effect?
The last four words of the national anthem
What is "home of the brave"?
Binocular cue allowing us to judge distance using images from both eyes
What is retinal disparity?
After staring at her yellow binder, Susie answered, "lemon" when asked to name a fruit. This is an example of this phenomena in our memory recall.
What is priming?
Newman feels salty because she can't remember the name of student from first term. She is probably experiencing this type of interference.
What is retroactive interference?
Not performing as well on tests because you have been told your group las lower scores on the test.
What is stereotype threat?
Per the famous song, Whenever this guy goes out people always shout this name because his name is my name too.
Who is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?