Chapter 5 Review
Across
- 3. ________ processes: active processes that can be controlled by the person.
- 4. ________ memory: Brief sensory memory of the things that we hear.
- 7. ________ interference: occurs when new learning interferes with remembering old learning.
- 11. ______-term Memory: Can hold a large amount of information for years or even decades.
- 12. ________ memory is concerned with the processing and manipulation of information that occurs during complex cognition.
- 14. Repeatedly performing the same action or thought even if it is not achieving the desired goal.
- 15. ________ cortex is responsible for processing incoming visual and auditory information.
Down
- 1. ________ interference: occurs when information learned previously interferes with learning new information.
- 2. ________ memory: Brief sensory memory of the things that we see.
- 5. ________ similarity effect: Letters or words that sound similar are confused.
- 6. _______ Memory: Initial stage that holds all incoming information for seconds or fractions of a second.
- 8. Small units can be combined into larger meaningful units.
- 9. word-_____ effect: Memory for lists of words is better for short words than for long words.
- 10. ______-term Memory: Holds five to seven items for about 15 to 20 seconds.
- 13. Processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present.