“Seven Sins of Memory”
Perception
Attention
Brain Science
Founders of Cognitive Psychology
100

This type of memory error is also referred to as the ”tip of the tongue” experience. 

What is blocking?

100

This is the basic understanding of our environment the feature identification. 

What is bottom-up processing?

100

This type of cognitive processing requires minimal effort. 

What is automatic processing?

100

This is the basic cell of the brain.

What is a neuron?

100

This psychologist was known for his book about common memory errors. 

What is Daniel Schacter?

200

This memory error is known to be a rumination of unwanted memories. 

What is persistenc?

200

This specific type of perceptual psychology did not last long and was focused on how things were organized perceptually. 

What is Gestalt Psychology?

200

Studies were conducted in which people were given a color word with and opposing color for the text which is known as this task. 

What is the stroop task?

200

These are extensions from the neuron that receive chemical messages. 

What is dendrites?

200
This psychologist is known for the development of his three-component model on working memory.

What is Alan Baddeley?

300
An alteration of a memory is known as this type of memory error. 

What is suggestibility?

300

This is also known as the V1 and is located in the occipital lobe of the brain.

What is the Primary Visual Cortex?

300
This type of attention was tested and proven that most people will not notice subtle changes in their environment. 

What is inattentional blindness?

300

A technique available to record electrical signals from neurons in a specific part of the brain. 

What is single-cell recording?

300

This psychologist was known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. 

What is Hermann Ebbinghaus?

400

”The Seven Sins of Memory” was written by this author to inform us of everyday memory errors. 

What is Daniel Schacter?

400

This theory of perception was first proposed by Herman Von Helmholtz in which our perception of the environment is somewhat unconscious. 

What is the theory of unconscious inference?

400

Kahneman’s model was supported by this specific method.

What is the dual-task method?

400

A method of temporarily stimulating or suppressing neurons using a magnetic field. 

What is Transcranial magnetic stimulation?

400

This psychologist is best known for her work on the misinformation effect and eye witness memory. 

What is Elizabeth Loftus?

500

”The Seven Sins of Memory“ was written in this year.

What is 2002?

500

This psychologist proposed that we identify objects by first identifying the geons that make up the object. 

What is Biederman?

500

This psychologist proposed that arousal can influency our mental resource capacity. 

What is Kahneman?

500

This new technique of brain imaging by scanning the magnetic properties of the blood flowing in the brain. 

What is functional magnetic resonance imaging?

500

This psychologist is known as the ”father of cognitive psychology” and has written about perception and memory. 

What is Ulric Neisser?