Perception
These factors shapes your perception.
What are, beliefs, expectations, family, peers, etc.?
Organizing effect that associates information with a phrase. (ex: Never Eat Soggy Waffles)
What are mnemonics?
Grouping information into familiar groups as a form of organizing memory.
What is chunking?
Items close to one another.
What is proximity?
Shape of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of human needs.
What is a pyramid?
Ability to see the world in three dimensions and knowing how far away objects are.
What is depth perception?
Error in thinking where there is a tendency to look for evidence that already backs up their existing beliefs.
Type of study effect that scatters studying which results in long-term memory retention.
What is spacing effect?
Items that look alike and are conformed as a group.
What is similarity?
A show title that's named after a feeling of intense happiness.
What is Euphoria?
Your personal mental concept that helps you organize and interpret information.
What is a schema?
Type of processing that requires little elaboration and surface level information.
What is shallow processing?
Blocking out memories, typically due to the traumatic or distressing association.
What are repressed memories?
Perceiving stimuli as a pattern, following smooth paths and lines.
What is continuity?
What is schizophrenia?
Type of processing that doesn't require previous knowledge. (ex: listening to a song for the first time.)
What is bottom-up processing?
A strategy to shortcut the amount of time to think and make decisions.
What are heuristics?
Recalling memories through the context of the environment where you first learned it. (ex.: filling the room with a certain scent while studying)
What is context-dependent memory?
The mind fills incomplete stimuli as complete.
What is closure?
This language is where the word "psych" is derived from.
What is Greek?
Type of processing that requires previous knowledge to understand. (ex: knowing what happens in previous episodes of a series.)
What is top-down processing?
Problem-solving strategies that have worked in the past.
What is a mental concept?
Form of memory loss due to the trauma to the brain which prevents a person from forming new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Founder of Gestalt psychology.
Who is Max Wertheimer?
Type of heuristic that makes decisions based on what comes to mind easily.
What are availability heuristics?