memory
forgetting/memory distortion
thinking
intelligence
language
100

The mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, and recovering knowledge to make an internal record of an experience.

What is Memory?

100

Absent-mindedness, Transience, and Blocking.

What are the "three sins of forgetting"?

100

Concepts & Images

what are the two types of thought

100

Aptitude: measure ability/potential

Achievement: Tests that measure what you've learned

What are the two types of tests?

100

The order of words in a language 

what is grammar?

200

encoding, storage, and retrieval

What are the three basic tasks of memory?

200

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?

200

A rule of thumb that can be used to make judgement however can be faulty at times.

What are heuristics?

200

Wechsler Tests (use scoring system but no formula)

What is the more common way to give IQ tests?

200

Babbling Stage, Holophrastic Stage, Telegraphic stage, Overgeneralization

What are the 4 stages in which we learn a language?

300

The temporary storage site where sensory info is processed, evaluated, and analyzed

What is short term memory?

300

Distortion, Misattribution, and Suggestibility.

What are the three sins of distortion?

300

Representativeness Heuristic, and Availability Heuristic.

What are the two types of Heuristics?

300

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?

300

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?

400
  • storehouse of information

  • when properly organized and integrated, info is readily available for retrieval

what is long term memory

400

Retrograde, and Anterograde.

What are the two types of Amnesia.

400

Mental set, Functional Fixedness, Confirmation Bias, Framing, and Creativity.

What are the five hurdles to problem solving?

400

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?

400

We learn language too quickly for it to be through reinforcement and punishment.

What is Chomsky's Theory?

500

Flashbulb, Semantic, Procedural, Episodic, Eidetic, Prospective

What are the 6 types of memory?

500

Phenomenon in which a persons existing memories can be altered if a person is exposed to misleading information

What is The Misinformation Effect?

500

A formula/rule used to achieve the solution to a problem 

What is an Algortithm?

500

Charles Spearman & G Factor, Howard Gardner & Multiple Intelligences, Robert Sternberg & Triarchic Theory, and Goleman & EQ

What are the 4 main theories of intelligence? 

500

The idea that language determines the way we think.

What Is Linguistic Relativity.