AP Psych: Unit 2 Review

I discovered hat if you damaged an area in the left temporal lobe you would lose comprehension

Early speech stage in which a child speaks with mostly nouns and verbs: "Go Car"

A tendency to search for info that confirms one's preconceptions.

Not wanting to go on a plane after 9/11 could best be explained by:

Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent prototypes.

I remember my past but cant form new memories. What do I have?

Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve told us that:

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue is an example of which encoding strategy?

The inability to see a problem from a new perspective.

________ is the activation of a memory when we hear, smell, taste, or bring an item up

______ is believed to be a neural basis for learning & memory. The cells increase their firing!

The explicit memory system encompasses which brain parts?

A multiple choice question on a test is an example of _____.

A fill in the blank question on a test is an example of______.

A tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, esp. one that has worked!

This allows us to communicate with and understand others.

The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.

All mental activities associated with thinking, knoing, remembering, etc.

I located an area in the left frontal lobe that controls language expression.

Our working memory is also known as our ______ memory.

A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

The smallest distinctive sound unit in a spoken language.

A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.

After a head injury, a digagnosis of ______ was given b/c I couldn't remember my past.