Memory
The process where you repeat information in order to maintain it in short-term memory.
What is rehearsal?
"ba-ba-ba-pa-pa" is an example of this
What is babbling?
A cognitive bias that relies too much on the first information we've been given. It's a great strategy for making a low offer while bargaining.
What is the anchoring effect?
The field of study concerned with psychological measurement
What is psychometrics?
When you know something but you are not able to articulate it.
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
The the inability to retrieve information from long-term memory.
What is forgetting?
The singsong, high-pitched speech with slow exaggerated pronunciation that parents use with babies. By the way, this form of speech is culturally specific and is not necessary for language development.
What is motherese?
The susceptibility of our memories to include false details that fit in with real details of an event.
People's IQ scores start to decline after this age
What is 45 years old?
A psychological test that measures the trait it is intended to measure is said to be this.
What is valid?
Rain Man is a film starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman based on this autistic man's life (and his exceptional photographic memory).
Who is Kim Peek?
The stage where a child can utter typically two or three words. It follows after the one-word stage
What is the telegraphic stage?
An example of a decision-making error in which someone fails to properly estimate the probability of a particular outcome after being given additional information.
What is the Monty Hall problem?
The name of the effect that refers to the substantial increase in average scores on IQ tests that has taken place since the first IQ tests were developed.
What is the Flynn effect?
The sudden understanding of a tough problem that leads to a solution without using trial and error.
What is insight?
A woman developed a tumor that diminished her ability to form new long-term memories. Though memory involves numerous parts of the brain, the part most likely affected by the tumor is this.
What is the hippocampus?
Language impairment in expression, understanding, or both.
What is aphasia?
An example of when you are so absorbed in a book that you don't notice when your roommate enters the room.
What is change blindness?
High IQ scores have been shown to predict school performance but not this.
What is happiness?
A statistical estimate of the extent to which individual differences in genes in a population contribute to individual differences in a trait.
Psychologists use this term to describe memory for information that is able to be articulated, while that term describes memory for information that aids the performance tasks. (2 answers)
What is declarative and nondeclarative?
The state achieved when your skill level is high and your challenge level is also high.
What is flow?
Research on the framing effect shows that when people have to choose between an option framed in terms of a gain and an option framed in terms of a loss, most people do this.
What is remain indecisive?
What is the Binet-Simon scale?
When you have a decreased ability to remember new information. In extreme cases, when you cannot form new memories beyond a specific point in the past.
What is anterograde amnesia?