Unit 2 - Cognitive

We encode sensory experiences simultaneously, some automatically, because of which part of brain?

Which of the following scenarios involves using cued recall?

The ratio of mental age to chronological age for a child of average intelligence is

Which memory is retention independent of conscious recollection. Also called non-declarative or procedural memory.

What is a stimuli that are not detectable 50% of the time. They are below your absolute threshold.

This is a step by step, logical procedure that guarantees solving a problem:

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

Implicit (unconscious, automatic and muscle memory) is processed in the

To remember how to spell rhinoceros, Sam spells the word aloud 30x. She using technique known as

He was known for studying how quickly we forget.

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

Compared with adults, children and older people are more susceptible to

Creativity is most closely related to

Sternberg's theory of Triarchic Intelligence includes all of the following except...

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

Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve told us that:

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

What is it called when you make a decisions based upon characteristics from your schema or example in front of you?

By writing down class notes in your own words you are improving memory by

What is a momentary sensory memory of a visual stimuli?

Our working memory is also known as our ______ memory.

Which of the following occurs during long term potentiation?

Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates context-dependent memory?

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

Stan recalls the one time he won at blackjack and this makes him eager to keep playing.

Wendy thinks she remembers visiting Disney at 3 but she really just heard this from her sister.

What is thinking about your own thinking called?

Cerebellum is to ________ memory as hippocampus is to ________ memory.

Short term memory is best described in which of the following ways?

People tend to recall the last items on the list when they hear a list of items - illustrates which effect

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

Repeating your locker combination over and over is an example of

Iconic memory (visual/sensory memory) lasts for:

Lewis Terman's studies of gifted children indicated that

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

Rehearsal is to encoding as retrieval cues are to

What is the loss of memory or the inability to form new memories called?

Memory for factual information is known as ______ memory.

The explicit memory system encompasses which brain parts?

Granny can't remember what day it is or who the president is, but recalls her childhood clearly

When solving most of our day to day problems, we rely on self created or learned solutions called?

Which researcher identified the core factor "g" for general mental ability?

What are memories for general facts and concepts not linked to a specific time?

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

Emotional, Vivid, and even Scarring memories are

Some information in our fleeting ____ is encoded into short-term memory

Déjà vu refers to the

I can't remember my old phone number because my new phone number keeps coming up in my head.

The Flynn effect says that ..

The inability to remember how Lincoln's head appears on a penny is most likely due to a failure in

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

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

A basic assumption underlying short term memory is that it is

Mnemonic devices make effective use of

A college entrance exam, which seeks to predict your ability to do college work ...

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

During the day, people unconsciously encode the sequence of day's events. This best illustrates

A prototype is best defined as

What is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations?

This part of the brain is important in remembering emotionally-charged events:

If you receive roughly the same score on a test after multiple administrations, it is...

Wolfgang fell out of a truck, hit his head, and cannot remember anything prior to the accident.

Short-term memories last for about

Midterms, finals, and most standardized tests, which assess your knowledge of a subject, are...

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

What is a momentary sensory memory of a auditory stimuli?

The inability to see a problem from a new perspective.

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

When information you learned at an earlier time impedes your memory for new information, it’s called

Binet - Simon theorized that mental aptitude is a general capacity that shows up in various ways at certain ages

The organization of information into meaningful units is called

The process of getting information into memory is called

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

What are memories for personal events in a specific time and place?

Which type of encoding takes thought and understanding to be encoded?

I ask you to imagine an ordinary chair. The mental image that comes to you is:

The type of intelligence that gets weaker over time that involves being able to think, reason and solve problems.…

What is an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts?

The earliest efforts to measure intelligence were directed at which of the following?

Which memory is of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and “declare”.

Using HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior) Great Lakes or Never Eat Soggy Waffles - NSEW are examples of

The concept of G is most accurately defined as which of the following?

What are memories gained from a physical location where you earlier experienced that help prime your memory retrieval?

People tend to recall the first items on the list when they hear a list of items - illustrates which effect

Someone with significant mental disabilities that demonstrates certain abilities far in excess of average

I have the eerie sense that I have taken this Quiz quiz in this exact room before.

The type of intelligence that involves applying acquired knowledge over time to solve problems is…

What is a mental shortcut that influences how people make decisions by relying on info most readily available to them?

Creativity is most closely associated with which of the following?

What are memories from learned emotional responses to various stimuli?

Which is most likely to lead to remembering a list of words?

What is it called when someone retrieves memories, but are associated with the wrong time, place or person.