Chapter 8
Chapter 8 pt.2
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 pt.2
Miscellanious
100

Evidence that learning does not persist

What is Retrieval failure

100

In which region of the brain are explicit memories for facts and episodes processed, and then fed to other brain regions for storage?

What is Hippocampus?

100

All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

What is cognition

100

Ability to learn form experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

What is Intelligence

100

This explains how eyewitnesses reconstruct their memories after a crime or accident

What is Misinformation effect

200

Students use ____, a measure of memory, when they identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.

What is recognition?

200

Researchers point to immaturity of the ____ as a possible reason for infantile amnesia

What is hippocampus?

200

Tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

What is Confirmation Bias

200

Assess mental aptitudes and compare them with those of others, using numerical scores

What is Intelligence tests

200

SQ3R, a study technique used in this textbook, is an acronym for ____

What is Survey, question, rad, retrieve, review

300

What is the correct order in which information travels through the memory system?

What is Sensory memory- short-term memory- long-term memory?

300

The tendency to recall items that appear first on a list is called ___

What is the primacy effect

300

Estimating likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes

What is Representativeness Heuristic

300

Portion of variation among people in group that is attributed to genes

What is Heritability 

300

John as a disease that is slowly stripping away his memory. At the beginning of the disease course, John had difficulty remembering new information; now he is unable to do everyday tasks. Which disease does John have?

What is Alzheimer's disease?

400

Organization of items into familiar manageable units; often occurs automatically

What is chunking?
400

____ interference occurs when prior learning disrupts your recall of new information

What is proactive?

400

Smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word

What is a Morpheme

400
Focus on learning and growing; belief that intelligence is changeable

What is Growth mindset

400

To encode lengthy speech passages for better recall, Steven uses techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices. What are such memory aids called?

What is Mnemonics?

500

Organization of items into a few broad categories that are divided and subdivided into narrower concepts and facts (concept maps, outlines)

What are Hierarchies?

500

The term _____ describes the basic defense mechanism from psychoanalytic theory that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

What is repression?

500

Set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds/words; meaning in language

What is Semantics

500

A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

What is a Stereotype threat

500

After Andy was in an accident, he could recall his past, but could not form new memories. Which type of amnesia does Andy have?

What is Anterograde?