Memory
Forgetting
Intelligence
Stats
"Remember" or "Forget" That Song
100

"My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Naan" is an example of this type of "m"emory device to remember the order of the planets. No need to say the silent letter that is starts with.

What is a mnemonic?

100

This french named phenomenon of feeling like one has lived through a situation in the past is actually a memory glitch, possibly due to a misfiring in brain regions that handle familiarity that can be triggered by fatigue

What is Deja Vu?

100

This type of intelligence involves the ability to more easily navigate social situations and better understand the feelings and thoughts of other people

What is emotional intelligence?

100

I will try to be kind even if you forgot this "m"easure of central tendency that gives you the average of a data set

What is mean?

100

"Remember Me" was a hit song from this Disney Pixar movie that is ripe for a rewatch since we are not that far removed from dia de los muertos

What is Coco?

200

Working memory is also called this two word diminutive memory because it is involved in the retention of information for a relatively small time (usually up to 30 seconds)

What is short-term memory?

200

When a word is on the tip of your tongue but you can't "r"ecall it, you are experiencing failure in this final stage of memory

What is retrieval?

200

The "Q" in IQ (a measure of intelligence) stands for this mathematical word that is often used to describe the result of division problems

What is quotient?

200

The normal distribution is commonly described as the curve named after this musical object that is resembles

What is the Bell curve?

200

"I Forgot that you Existed" was a minor hit for this major artist off of her 2019 album "Lover"

Who is Taylor Swift?

300

This is a helpful memory method where you break something up into more manageable parts, like breaking a phone number into 3 groups instead one 10-digit number

What is chunking?

300

One of the ways that we forgot is the natural decay of this stage of memory, saving the information for future use. It's why you may not remember the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark

What is storage (decay)?

300

The long-term rise in standardized IQ scores across generations is an effect named after this man who has suggested that better nutrition, more years of schooling, and increased familiarity with abstract thinking have influenced cognitive abilities across the world

What is Flynn (effect)?

300

This measure of variability describes how much a data set varies compared to the mean and you should be able to puzzle out what it is if you are two or three of these above the mean with your IQ score

What is standard deviation?

300

This super-fan in an Eminem song narrates his letters including the lines "Remember when we met in Denver? You said if I'd write you, you would write back."

Who is Stan?

400

These mental connections between concepts are key for learning and memory and if you can create a lot of them you are likely to get an "A"

What are associations?

400

The loss of memories can be described using this "A" word of which there are retrograde and anterograde varieties

What is amnesia?

400

This type of intelligence involves flexible thinking and reasoning with a lot of speed and it tends to decrease after the age of 30

What is fluid intelligence?

400

This type of study takes a "snapshot" of different groups at the same time, like giving an IQ test to kids and their parents simultaneously to see how age impacts intelligence

What is a cross-sectional study?

400

This colorfully-named singer's radio version of his most popular song is "Forget You" but the uncensored version does not use that specific f-word

Who is CeeLo Green?

500

A person's tendency to better remember information when it is related to them is known as this effect

What is the self-reference effect?

500

This type of interference occurs when new information messes with old learning, like your Italian that you're learning causing you to forgot the Spanish words that you learned previously

What is retroactive Interference?

500

This physical form of intelligence theorized by Howard Gardner is the ability to use one's whole body to solve problems and it's likely that athletes "K"on Knueppel and Kosta Koufos have high amounts of it

What is Kinesthetic Intelligence?

500

This 2-word alliterative term describes data that is important enough that we shouldn't dismiss it as just occurring randomly

What is statistical significance?

500

"Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds closes out this classic 80's movie about a disparate group of teens sentenced to detention on a Saturday

What is the Breakfast Club?