Perception in Action
A student is so focused on texting while walking that she fails to notice her friend waving directly in front of her.
What is inattentional blindness
Instead of checking every aisle for a certain sauce, a shopper starts in the international foods section because it "makes sense".
What is a heuristic?
A multiple choice test primarily measures this type of memory retrieval.
What is recognition?
A student cannot remember information because she never paid attention during the lecture in the first place.
What is encoding failure?
This theory proposes that intelligence consists of eight distinct types, including musical and interpersonal.
What is Gardner's Multiple Intelligences?
At a loud pep rally, Marcus can focus on his friend's voice despite the noise around him.
What is the cocktail party effect?
After watching several news stories about shark attacks, a swimmer overestimates the likelihood of being attacked.
What is availability heuristic?
A student can ride a bike without consciously thinking about each movement.
What is implicit memory?
After learning a new password, Jordan struggles to remember his old one.
What is retroactive interference?
A test that predicts future performance, such as career tests, is this type of test.
What is an aptitude test?
A toddler refuses to crawl across a glass platform that appears to drop off into space, even thought it is safe. What does this demonstrate?
What is depth perception?
A student insists she doesn't need to study because she is "definitely going to get an A," despite low quiz grades.
What is overconfidence?
Remembering that the capital of France is Paris is an example of this type of long-term memory.
What is semantic memory?
A man can't remember a name until someone mentions where he met the person, triggering recall.
What are retrieval cues?
The gradual rise in average IQ scores over generations is known as this.
What is the Flynn Effect?
Two streetlights blink on and off in rapid succession, and drivers perceive them as moving.
What is the phi phenomenon?
Even after being shown data disproving her belief, a person continues to argue that left-handed people are more creative.
What is belief perserverance?
While solving a math problem in her head, Maya actively manipulates numbers and holds them temporarily.
What is working memory?
A student studies in a quiet classroom and performs best when taking the exam in the same environment.
What is context-dependent memory?
An intelligence test that produces consistent results over time demonstrates this characteristic.
What is reliablity?
While flying in an airplane, Olivia knows the cars below are normal-sized even though they look tiny.
What is perceptual constancy?
A student keeps trying to solve a math problem using the same formula that worked before, even though it no longer applies.
What is a mental set?
A person repeats a phone number just long enough to dial it but forgets it immediately afterward.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
Someone "forgets" a traumatic childhood event and pushes it out of conscious awareness.
What is repression?
What is motivated forgetting?
Older adults tend to score higher on vocab but lower on processing speed due to differences between these two types of intelligence.
What are crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence?