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Thinking
Language
Memory
Psychologists
Miscellaneous
100
All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing and remembering
What is cognition?
100
Two word sentences that convey meaning, usually noun and verb, utilized by young children
What is telegraphic speech?
100
Holds information for about twenty seconds and has a capacity of seven plus or minus two items.
What is short term memory?
100
Developed a theory on the amount of time it takes for us to forget information.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
100
I lost my car keys when I was drunk, and I don't remember where they are until I get drunk again. I am exemplifying _____.
What is state-dependent memory?
200
Thinking that produces many alternatives or ideas
What is divergent thinking?
200
Smallest unit of spoken sound
What is a phoneme?
200
Memory of general knowledge and objective facts
What is semantic memory?
200
Psychologist who created the idea of the Language Acquisition Device
Who is Noam Chomsky?
200
This is an example of ____: April decides to use a book as a pillow, but Nicole can only read it, even though it’s Twilight, because it doesn't occur to her to use it in other ways.
What is functional fixedness?
300
Barriers to problem solving that occur when we only use methods that have worked previously instead of trying new or different strategies
What is mental set?
300
Human brain’s innate capability for language
What is a language acquisition device?
300
I can only remember the first and last squares on the Monopoly Board- I am a victim of the _____.
What is the serial position effect?
300
This psychologist created a theory of language learning but is more known for operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
300
The concept that language guides and defines thought
What is Theory of Linguistic Relativity?
400
This is an example of ____ : If I believe that aliens exist, seeing strange lights in the sky might make me panic, thinking I’m going to be abducted, when it is in fact a helicopter.
What is belief bias?
400
The word "textbooks" has _____ morphemes
What is three morphemes?
400
This is an example of ____: If I stand on one side of Jarek and read from a chapter of Harry Potter and Nicole stands on the other side of Jarek and reads from a chapter of The Hunger Games, he will only be able to focus on one of our voices at a time, so that when Nick asks him to summarize both chapters, Jarek will only be able to provide fragments of each.
What is dichotic listening?
400
Did extensive research into constructive memory, focusing on the effect of misinformation on eyewitness testimony
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
400
This is an example of ____ : When learning how to solve math problems, one often learns a step by step method, for example if I were answering a normal distribution stats question, I would 1. verify that it’s a normal distribution 2. find the z score 3. use my z score table to convert to probability
What is an algorithm?
500
When we make judgments based on how quickly we can think of related experiences and consequences
What is availability heuristic?
500
The application of grammatical rules without making proper exceptions
What is overgeneralization or overregulation?
500
An increase in synapse firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation; involves an increase in efficiency with which signals are sent across synapses within neural networks
What is long term potentiation?
500
Created the filter theory that competing information from the senses is filtered as it is received and analyzed in the stages of memory.
Who is Donald Broadbent?
500
Humans process memories by first recording information as sensory memory, which is processed into short-term memory and then encoded for long-term memory and retrieval
What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin 3 Stage Model of Memory?