Perception & Sensation
Using sensory info to perceive the world
What is Bottom-Up Processing?
What is the first stage of memory?
Encoding
What is concepts?
Who created theory number 1?
Charles Spearman
Using existing knowledge to interpret new info. Top-down processing
What is Top-down processing?
A mental image or best example of a concept.
What is a prototype?
Robert Sternberg's concept consists of which 3 types of intelligence?
Practical, Creative, and Analytical
When people who have lost limbs report sensation or pain where that limb used to be, they're experiencing?
Phantom Limb Sensation
Memory of how to do things like drive, ride a bike, swim, etc.
Procedural Memory
Cognitive frameworks that help people organize and interpret new experiences.
What is a schema?
Genes account for how much of one's intellignece?
50-80%
There are 4 predictable patterns of Gestalt Psychology, Proximity, Similarity, Closure, and..?
Figure and Ground!
Chunking
A mistake belief that a random event is more likely to occur because a series of the opposite event has happened.
What is Gambler's Fallacy?
How is intelligence measured?
Standardization, Validity, and Reliability
There are 6 overall taste qualities, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, and..?
Oleogustus - the taste of fat
A strategy for memory enhancement, which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information.
Method of Loci
Our brain's compulsion to stick with a losing choice because we've already invested time, money, and effort into it.
What is sunk-cost fallacy?
Who created the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale?
Lewis Terman