What is another term for short-term memory, the information we are currently holding in our hippocampus?
What is working memory?
100
What is it called when you remember information from when you where in a similar emotional state?
What is mood congruent memory?
100
What theory did Genie's case help prove
What is the critical period theory?
100
A step by step process to solving a problem.
What is an algorithm?
200
What do you call quick auditory sensory memory?
What is echoic memory?
200
When you constantly repeat information in your head and make it meaningful you are practicing which type of rehearsal?
What is elaborative?
200
He proved that over 50% of what we encode is forgotten quickly if not used
Who is Ebbinghaus?
200
This time in your life is the optimal time to learn languages
What is ages 2-puberty (12)
200
A short cut to solving problem which is typically error prone.
What is heuristic?
300
What is the magic number of working memory capability?
What is 7?
300
Which 2 of the 3 parts of the brain that are primarily responsible for memory?
What are the hippocampus, cerebellum, and cerebral cortex?
300
You would do better on your mcas math if you take it in your math classroom based on which principle.
What is state or context dependent learning?
300
Benjamin Whorf believed that language shapes the way that we __________.
What is think?
300
The biggest obstacle to people finding novel ways to use various objects.
What is functional fixedness?
400
Memory technique where you organize information into meaningful units
What is chunking?
400
If your mom gives you a grocery list you are most likely to remember the first and last items according to which principle?
What is serial position effect?
400
Loftus' belief that we all fill in the gaps of our memory and therefore are subject to false memories.
What is confabulation?
400
Which device did Noam Chomsky argue is activated when we start learning language?
What is language acquisition device?
400
A mental category for organizing our world.
What is a schema?
500
Which memory technique encourages studying only 5 minutes a night for 10 nights, instead of 50 minutes in one night.
What is the spacing effect?
500
Type of memory where a person (sometimes a savant) has one piece of their memory is exceptional such as music or art.
What is Eidetic Memory?
500
Learning vocabulary from your new Latin class is getting in the way of you remembering vocabulary from your freshman Spanish class. This concept is known as...
What is retroactive interference?
500
The major concern of the Genie Experiment
What is ethics?
500
prototypes (mental representations) can cause this in the social world.