Sensation
The smallest amount of a stimuli that one can detect.
What is an Absolute Threshold?
This is the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is Cognition?
This is the mental categories that group objects/ideas due to their similarities.
What are Concepts?
These are designed to assess what a person has already learned and/or accomplished in a specific subject.
What are Achievement Tests?
This is the encoding, storaging, and retrieving of information.
What is Memory?
This is when you use your senses to gather information that needs to be transduced into a chemical message that goes to the brain for processing.
What is Sensation?
This is an awareness and understanding of one's own thought process, known to be simplified as thinking about thinking.
What is Metacognition?
This is the mental shortcuts that simplify decision-making by using general rules of thumb.
What are Heuristics?
These are designed to measure mental aptitude and the ability to learn.
What are Intelligence Tests?
Elias has no memories from when he was born.
What is Infantile Amnesia?
Melkias wears a coat when he's outside. After twenty minutes, he no longer notices he's wearing it.
What is Sensory Adaptation?
This process is when the brain uses prior knowledge, expectations, and context to interpret sensory information.
What is Top-Down Processing?
At the mall, Jewel sees a sign for a product stating "Save $20" instead of one stating "Pay $80 instead of $100"
What is Framing?
This is the belief that one's intelligence and abilities can be developed through effort, learning, and perseverance.
What is a Growth Mindset?
Located in the brain's Temporal Lobe, this is responsible for moving information from short term memories to long term memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
Nadia is shown a visual stimulus. Even after the original stimulus was removed from her line of sight, she continued to see the image.
What is an Afterimage?
This process is when perception is built from the new individual sensory details that are detected and sent to the brain.
What is Bottom-Up Processing?
Cairo spent $16 on a movie ticket. After 30 minutes, he hates the movie, but he stays to watch the next 90 minutes because he already paid.
What is Sunk-Cost Fallacy?
This is the extent to which a test actually measures the theoretical concept.
What is Construct Validity?
When planning on redoing her room, Beth visualizes her room layout and what it would look like with her furniture rearranged.
What is Visuospatial Sketchpad?
While driving on the highway, Alena hears an ambulance siren behind her. She immediately pulls over to let them pass.
What is Sound Localization?
Ashley needed a screwdriver, but couldn't find one. She gave up even though she had alternatives like coins she could've used to turn the screw.
What is Functional Fixedness?
Clayre is terrified of flying even though plane crashes are very rare. Because when there is a plane crash, it's highly publicized, causing her to remember it.
What are Availability Heuristics?
This is a psychology study concerned with the theories and techniques of psychological measurements
What is Psychometrics?
In the movie Inside Out, Riley visually remembers the pizza place, but not by name.
What is Shallow Structural Processing?