Memory
One is unconscious & automatic, the other is conscious & intentional
What is the difference between implicit & explicit memory?
A cognitive bias that influences how people interpret sensory information based on their expectations and past experiences.
What is a perceptual set?
The variable that is measured and is expected to change as a result of the manipulation of another variable.
What is a dependent variable?
A situation where someone feels at risk of confirming a negative stereotype about their social group.
What is stereotype threat?
A percentage that indicates how well a student performed on an achievement test compared to other students in a specific group.
What is a percentile rank?
A type of implicit memory that stores and retrieves the skills and steps needed to perform tasks without conscious awareness
What is procedural memory?
The difference in the images seen by each eye when looking at an object.
What is retinal disparity?
The method used to conduct a research study where a researcher manipulates one variable to observe its effect on another variable, while carefully controlling for other potentially influencing factors.
What is an experimental design?
A cognitive process that involves changing or creating new mental frameworks to incorporate new information or experiences.
What is accommodation?
A standardized assessment that measures a person's potential to learn or perform a particular task or skill.
What is an aptitude test?
It is limited in capacity.
What is short-term memory?
A visual cue that helps people perceive depth and distance.
What is linear perspective?
The organization that creates the ethical guidelines for research.
What is the American Psychological Association?
A tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often based on past experiences, habits, or culture.
What is a mental set?
The middle 68% of the distribution.
What is the area between 1 standard deviation above and 1 standard deviation below the mean in a normal distribution?
Area of the brain damaged in patients with amnesia.
What is the hippocampus?
It allows people to perceive familiar objects as having a standard shape, size, color, and location, even when the object's relationship to the observer changes.
What does perceptual constancy do?
Using deception so the participants won't know the true nature of a study.
What is an unethical research method?
A mental representation of a concept or object that people use to categorize and understand the world.
What is a prototype?
Predicting student's success in school.
What is the original use of intelligence tests?
A memory retrieval technique that uses aids to help people remember information from their long-term memory.
What is cued recall?
A concept that describes how a person's response to a stimulus can be influenced by a previous exposure to a different stimulus.
What is priming?
A research strategy that involves analyzing the results of multiple previous studies to gain a broader understanding of a topic
What is a meta analysis?
The conscious and active processing of information that requires sustained effort and attention.
What is effortful processing?
The ability to use knowledge, skills, and experience to solve problems and adapt to new situations.
What is crystallized intelligence?