Memory
Thinking
Problem Solving
Language
Cognition
100

This effect refers to the tendency to remember the last items on a list.

What is the recency effect?

100

This psychologist proposed a three-stage model of child development.

Who is Jean Piaget?

100

A simple mental shortcut to solve problems quickly, though it can sometimes lead to errors.

What is a heuristic?

100

This area of the brain is responsible for speech production.

What is Broca's area?

100

This type of thinking generates multiple, unique solutions to a problem.

What is divergent thinking?

200

This type of memory refers to facts, experiences, and skills we've held for a long time.

What is long-term memory?

200

This effect means remembering items at the beginning of a list better.

What is the primacy effect?

200

The tendency to focus on information that confirms one's beliefs.

What is confirmation bias?

200

This area of the brain is key to understanding language.

What is Wernicke's area?

200

The type of thinking that narrows solutions to find a single correct answer.

What is convergent thinking?

300

The ability to recall memories that match one's current mood.

What is mood congruent memory?

300

This term describes an inability to think of solutions beyond a specific mindset.

What is fixation?

300

The term for an over-optimistic estimate of time needed to complete a task.

What is the planning fallacy?

300

The term for memory often affected in young children.

What is "kid's memory" or childhood amnesia?

300

This theorist identified key components of creativity, including originality.

Who is Robert Sternberg?

400

The difference between repression and regression and the one related to Freud.

What are "repression involves unconsciously blocking painful memories, and regression involves reverting to an earlier developmental stage; repression is related to Freud"?

400

This theorist developed the eight-stage model of psychosocial development.

Who is Erik Erikson?

400

This approach subtly encourages a specific choice or behavior.

What is nudging?

400

This type of memory storage holds information for only a short period.

What is short-term memory?

400

The systematic steps to finding solutions to a problem.

What are problem-solving procedures?

500

This type of amnesia prevents someone from forming new memories.

What is anterior (anterograde) amnesia?

500

These three individuals are known for stage theories in development.

Who are Piaget, Erikson, and Kohlberg?

500

Name the two types of memory loss, one affecting new memories, and the other affecting old memories.

What are anterior (anterograde) and retrograde amnesia?

500

The Freudian concept of unconsciously blocking painful memories.

What is repression?

500

This bias means recalling more recent information over older information.

What is the recency effect?