Emphasize how we process stimulus characteristics.
What are bottom-up processes?
100
The process of creating a single memory unit consisting of strongly associated components.
What is "chunking"?
100
This famous movie was used as an example of our eyeheight and how it can change the perception of size.
What is Terminator?
100
This part of the memory can only hold about 7 pieces of information.
What is short term memory?
100
This language is spoken in the most countries.
What is English?
200
Emphasize how we process concepts, expectations, and memory.
What are top-down processes?
200
This consists of the recency effect and the primacy effect and describes how the order of items on a list can be remembered differently.
What is the serial-position effect?
200
This famous painting was used to explain texture gradient, the fact that there is more detail at forefront of picture and less at the back of picture.
What is The Gleaners?
200
This is the term used to describe our short term visual memory - when we see something it burns an image in our mind for just about a second.
What is iconic memory?
200
These are the two areas of the brain that are most responsible for speech and language.
What is Broca's and Wernicke's area?
300
Humans are born with a specialized device that allows us to decode speech stimuli. This approach can be used to explain why speech sounds are processed more quickly and accurately than other auditory stimuli. Evidence of categorical speech perception is used to support this approach.
What is the special-mechanism approach?
300
Consists of the central executive, visuo-spatial sketchpad, episodic buffer, and phonological loop.
What is the working memory approach?
300
The term used to explain that our right and left eye perceive an object in different spots.
What is retinal disparity?
300
This is the term for Later learning interferes with the previous learning
What is retroactive interference?
300
This is a way of teaching communication with babies at a young age, before speech skills can develop.
What is baby sign language?
400
According to this approach, humans use the same neural mechanisms to process both speech sounds and nonspeech sounds.
What is the general mechanism approach?
400
Explains why recall is better if the context during retrieval when the context is similar to the context in which items were encoded.
What is the encoding-specificity principle?
400
This part of the eye refracts the light and accounts for approximately two-third's of the eye's total optical power.
What is the cornea?
400
This is the term for the gradual loss of primary memory.
What is decay?
400
This is the term used to describe the changing vowel sounds in the areas arounds the Great Lake Region.
What is vowel shift?
500
Views attention according to two separate processes: distributed attention and focused attention. This approach has been used to explain the phenomenon known as the "illusory conjunction."
What is the feature-integration approach?
500
Material associated with the self is rehearsed more frequently and remembered better.
What is the self-reference effect?
500
This is the clear "gel" that fills the space betwen the lens and the retina of the eyball.
What is the vitreous humor?
500
Remembering what your day was like on 9/11/01 is an example of this term.
What is flashbulb memory?
500
This is one of the words that was coined by George W. Bush.