According to George Miller,
we have room for this many
items in our short-term memory
What is 7 (plus or minus 2)
100
The basic defense mechanism that
suppresses memories that cause anxiety
What is Repression
100
Our best example of a category
What is Prototype
100
The building block of any
language; the smallest unit
What is Phoneme
200
Encoding by thinking to
yourself, “this new term
rhymes with something else.”
What is Acoustic Encoding
200
Fill-in-the-blank questions measure
this ability to retrieve information
What is Recall
200
This “effect” happens when
we include incorrect or misleading
information in our memories
What is Misinformation Effect
200
A rule of thumb
What is Heuristic
200
Although words may be put
together in the correct order,
they may not possess meaning, or this.
What is Semantics
300
Encoding by organizing
information in digestible bites
What is Chunking
300
One of the two original authors
of the 3-box model for memory
What is Atkinson OR Shiffrin
300
TOT, or Tip-of-the-Tongue
phenomenon, is most likely
an example of this kind of
“failure” to remember
What is Retrieval Failure
300
When retailers mark down a
$50 shirt to $25, it sounds
like a better deal then a
regularly priced $25 shirt
because of _______
What is Framing
300
The approximate age babies
begin communicating one word at a time.
What is 1 year old
400
A memory formed by an
extremely emotional event
What is Flashbulb Memory
400
Our tendency to remember experiences
consistent with our current mood
What is Mood Congruent Memory
400
Her studies on the memories
of children claiming abuse
has been controversial, even
resulting in death threats
What is Elizabeth Loftus
400
Work and work and work
and make no progress on a
problem. Suddenly, this happens.
What is Insight
400
Research demonstrating that
older people have a more
difficult time learning a new
language supports the
theories put forth by this
famous psychologist
What is Noam Chomsky
(“Language Acquisition
Device” and “Critical Period”)
500
Space, time, and frequency
are usually encoded this way
What is Automatic Processing
500
Our fleeting sensory
memory of images
What is Iconic Memory
500
This psychologist demonstrated how
memory storage decays, eventually
leveling off around 33%
What is Ebbinghaus
500
Approaching a problem
believing that there could be
more than one solution
What is Divergent Thinking
500
If bilingual people have a
cognitive advantage, they are
likely to frequently discover
more than one solution to a
problem, contrary to this kind
of thinking