Intelligence
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing:
This part of our brain is responsible for holding our long-term memory:
Hippocampus
A measure of memory in the which the person must retrieve information learned earlier:
Recall
All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating:
Cognition
The organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from their surrounds:
Figure-Ground
The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use sentiment:
Emotional Intelligence
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli:
Iconic Memory
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly:
Short-Term Memory
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people:
Concept
Perceptual Set
Psychologist who founded general (g) intelligence:
Charles Spearman
Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices:
Mnemonics
An inability to form new memories:
Anterograde Amnesia
A mental image or best example of a category:
Stimuli that is not detectable 50% of the time:
Subliminal Stimuli
Psychologist who created the theory of multiple intelligences:
Howard Gardner
Retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare:
Explicit Memory
A newer understanding of short-term memory that adds conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual information:
Working Memory
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgements and solve problems efficiently:
Heuristic
Guided by experience and higher level thinking; we see what we want to see: ex. an experienced hiker expects to see snakes on their hike
Top-Down Processing
WAIS- Adults
WISC- Children
An increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation; a neural basis for learning and memory:
Long-Term Potentiation
A theory that states that our memory of new information drops significantly in the first day or two of learning that piece of information:
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
Estimating the likelihood of events in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes:
Representativeness Heuristics
Activation of a memory by association, hearing one stimulus leads to the activation of another:
Priming