The mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, and recovering knowledge to make an internal record of an experience.
What is Memory?
Absent-mindedness, Transience, and Blocking.
What are the "three sins of forgetting"?
Concepts & Images
what are the two types of thought
Aptitude: measure ability/potential
Achievement: Tests that measure what you've learned
What are the two types of tests?
The order of words in a language
what is grammar?
encoding, storage, and retrieval
What are the three basic tasks of memory?
Common example of retrieval failure, it describes the feeling that at any moment something you're trying to remember is just out of reach but will soon pop up.
What is the "Tip-of-the-Tongue" phenomenon?
A rule of thumb that can be used to make judgement however can be faulty at times.
What are heuristics?
Wechsler Tests (use scoring system but no formula)
What is the more common way to give IQ tests?
Babbling Stage, Holophrastic Stage, Telegraphic stage, Overgeneralization
What are the 4 stages in which we learn a language?
The temporary storage site where sensory info is processed, evaluated, and analyzed
What is short term memory?
Distortion, Misattribution, and Suggestibility.
What are the three sins of distortion?
Representativeness Heuristic, and Availability Heuristic.
What are the two types of Heuristics?
Because their neurological speed is quicker higher performing brains use less glucose and and are less active than lower performing brains.
What is the difference between higher performing brains and less performing brains?
Baby's imitate the parents. Through positive and negative reinforcement you can teach a baby to stop or continue the usage of a word
What is the Social Learning Theory?
storehouse of information
when properly organized and integrated, info is readily available for retrieval
what is long term memory
Retrograde, and Anterograde.
What are the two types of Amnesia.
Mental set, Functional Fixedness, Confirmation Bias, Framing, and Creativity.
What are the five hurdles to problem solving?
Depending on the type of intelligence crystallized or fluid (adolescent IQ scores can be predicted by a child's IQ)
Can intelligence change over time?
We learn language too quickly for it to be through reinforcement and punishment.
What is Chomsky's Theory?
Flashbulb, Semantic, Procedural, Episodic, Eidetic, Prospective
What are the 6 types of memory?
Phenomenon in which a persons existing memories can be altered if a person is exposed to misleading information
What is The Misinformation Effect?
A formula/rule used to achieve the solution to a problem
What is an Algortithm?
Charles Spearman & G Factor, Howard Gardner & Multiple Intelligences, Robert Sternberg & Triarchic Theory, and Goleman & EQ
What are the 4 main theories of intelligence?
The idea that language determines the way we think.
What Is Linguistic Relativity.