AP Psych- Misc

Infinite # of sentences in a language, humans have an inborn native ability to develop language

What type of specific memory would you use to remember to return your library books on time?

An essay question on a test is an example of a teacher testing their students on...

Creative tests require this type of thinking ; come up with multiple solutions to one problem

Noticed the solution process wasn't slow, but sudden and reflective

Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

People won't remember info studied right before bed but will if it's an hour before bed

Work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making

Stage in speech development in which children age 1 -2 speak mainly using one word

Why we sometimes create false memories after repeating them many times to different people?

What 3 parts does your working memory consist of?

Condition in which you can’t remember anything new that happens, but you can remember past

Pointed out small capacity of STM in famous paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"

Whorf's hypothesis, linguistic determinism, is widely accepted.

Mnemonics such as acronyms and chunking are examples of…

What part of your brain do you use when encoding explicit memories?

What is Lisa's favorite animal?

Type of memory that stores information for only an instant before losing most of it

Grammar is an innate algorithm evolved by NS; requires a few parameters- language experience

Retrograde Amnesia

What is Caitlin's favorite animal?

What effect explains why you can remember your password better by making it your birthday?

Deep Processing

What part of the brain is used in processing implicit memories?

Tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list

Structural encoding emphasizes structure of incoming sensory information

Continuing to believe that the earth is flat even when shown evidence proving it’s round

Initial learning of information

Memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time

Strategy most commonly used in remembering phone numbers

What is a person most likely using when they classify a doctor as a intelligent, rich person?

Loaded questions about a car crash and responded with false recounts showed…

When a child turns 2, they start to speak using mainly 2 words such as “go now.” This is...

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Stage of talking that begins at 4 months old and consists of only random sounds

Ability to retain information in the brain

Systematically trying each letter in every possible position is an example of

The spacing effect encourages people to study a subject over extended periods of time

Having a clear memory of the day you found out your parents died is an example of a...

You use this type of processing to encode space, time, and frequency

The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.

When a person automatically trusts someone without any obvious reasoning behind it

By rehearsing a piece of info enough, you could make that info automatic instead of effortful

Cognition is...

People's long-term memories can be helped by hormones released during times of stress

"ch", "n", and "ck" are all examples of ...

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli

Proposed the triarchic theory that divides intelligence into three types

Amos Tversky

Remember items better by trying to retrieve info, typically after asked a question about info

Deja Vu is...

Involved in language comprehension & expression was named for him because he discovered it

Ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality

How an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments

Our spoken, written or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

When using this type of thinking, people pick out the single, best solution to a problem.

Easier recognizition- person or word if you have just seen something closely associated with it

Mental categories for classifying events, objects, and ideas on common features or properties

Cannot forget successful encoding even if we don’t continue to practice it

When someone walks into an interview sure that they will get the job but fail

People often fear flying more than driving believe this based off of...

Tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood

The rather permanent and endless storehouse of the memory system is...

Defense mechanism; banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, & memories

When someone thinks of a mammal, they tend to think of a dog. What does the dog represent?

Ability to access information when you need it

Explains why you do better on a test by studying in the same room you will be taking the test?

Made analogy between information storage in computers and information storage in human memory

Aphasia

Implicit Memories include...

What is it called when you used to know what a word meant, but now you can’t?

What is Emma's favorite animal?

What are the 3 different ways in which we encode information?

In a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others

Broca's Area

Can’t remember their previous teacher’s name but can remember their current teacher’s name is..

There is a need for conscious recollection in order to recall something

Condition in which damage causes people to be unable to form a sentence, but know the words

The person presenting next can't remember what the last person talked about. This shows the...

"ed", "chicken", and "non" are all examples of ...

Acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

Ex. someone randomly realises the answer to a math question while trying to fall asleep

What type of specific memory would you use to remember parts of your childhood?

Solving a math problem using the distance formula because other problems were solved that way

People learn the meaning behind a word best through the help of flashcards. What type?

Easier to recognize a face or word if you have recently seen that same face or word

Ex: unscrambling a word quickly by putting letters together that typically go together like ch

Short-Term Memory can hold 5-9 items or digits of info. (7+or-)

Memory

Tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and ignore anti evidence

Know the first letter of someone’s name but can’t come up with their actual name?

Sensory memory of auditory stimuli

Priming

Long-term Potentiation is...

A child who says things like “talk cat” is most likely using…

Who discovered that people will create false memories when asked loaded questions?

Showed that forming a new memory produces functional and structural changes in neuron (LTP)

Someone believes that their dream of failing a test actually happened. This is an example of…

True or False questions are an example of...

Who helped form a 3 stage model that focused on describing how we form explicit memories?

Wernicke’s Area

Semantic encoding

Learning or storing that requires attention and effort

Remember the names of some of the people you first met and some of the people you last met

When someone keeps going to their old English classroom rather than their new one is an example