Visual
This happens when expectations influence our perception
What is Perceptual Set?
A way of organizing information into categories and subcategories to make it easier to remember.
The really annoying feeling of being unable to remember a word or name that feels just out of reach.
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
The name for when IQ scores get higher over generations.
What is Flynn Effect?
This type of thinking involves narrowing down different possibilities to find an answer.
What is Convergent Thinking?
The process by which the brain distinguishes objects in a scene from its background.
What is Figure-Ground?
The tendency to remember information better when you're in the same mood or state as when you learned it.
The idea that we forget information more quickly right after learning it, and then the rate of forgetting slows down over time.
What is the Forgetting Curve?
For a child with an average intelligence, this is the ratio of mental age to chronological age.
What is 1:1?
This happens when seeing or hearing one work makes it easier to recognize a word later, like banana after seeing yellow.
What is Priming?
This phenomenon explains why an object is perceived as the same size even as it moves closer and its perceived distance becomes smaller.
What is Size Constancy?
The type of memory that allows someone to vividly recall personal experiences, such as specific vacations or events.
What is Episodic Memory?
This memory phenomenon causes Alex to keep recalling their old phone number instead of the new one they recently changed to.
What is Proactive Interference?
What is 83?
This occurs when after losing a lot of money in poker, Marcus believes that his chances of winning have increased because he “has” to win.
What is Gambler’s Fallacy?
This occurs when participants focus on counting soccer passes and fail to notice a person in a superhero costume walking through the scene.
What is Inattention Blindness?
This cognitive concept explains how engaging in deeper processing of a list of items, such as finding out whether each is a fruit, improves memory recall.
What is Elaborative Encoding?
An example of this phenomenon would be after hearing that people with their background typically excel in math, Jordan performs better on a challenging math test.
What is Stereotype Lift?
This cognitive process explains why, after hearing a news report about a recent bear attack, Sarah panics and flees upon seeing movement in the bushes during her hike.
What is Availability Heuristic?
This monocular cue explains the apparent convergence of parallel lines like railroad tracks as they stretch into the distance towards a single point on the horizon.
What is Linear Perspective?
Despite not having ridden a bike in years, Jamie gets on and rides smoothly without thinking about how to balance or pedal. This is an example of what type of memory?
What is Procedural Memory?
This memory phenomenon makes Sarah, after witnessing a car accident, recall seeing broken glass, even though there was none.
What is the Misinformation Effect?
This psychometric principle’s example is a personality test claims to measure how introverted you are, but researchers discover it mainly looks at social anxiety instead.
What is Construct?
What is Assimilation?