Cognition Crossword
Across
- 1. the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
- 4. a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
- 9. psychologist who developed the triarchic theory on intelligence, which features practical, creative, and analytical intelligence
- 10. ________ Heuristic is judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information
- 13. ________ Perseverance the tendency to continue believing something even after evidence supporting it has been contradicted.
- 15. The set of rules governing how symbols in a given language are used to form meaningful expressions.
- 17. a mental image or best example of a category; matching new items to one of these provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories
- 20. test the widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test (2 words)
- 22. Mood _______ memory is the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current good or bad mood
- 24. _________ Intelligence is our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood
- 26. the way that a problem is presented to someone, and it can drastically change that person's view or reaction to the problem.
- 29. __________Determinism the idea that the language you speak influences your thinking.
- 30. __________ Bias the tendency of individuals to support or search for information that aligns with their opinions and ignore information that doesn't.
- 31. ________ Effect the phenomenon in which there is a marked increase in intelligence test score averages over time
- 32. Psychologist who proposed the g factor theory, which holds that an underlying factor of general intelligence exists that forms the foundation out of which all intellectual abilities rise
- 37. ________interference is the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
- 38. _________ memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste.
- 39. ________ Heuristic when you judge something based on how they match your prototype. This leads us to ignore information and is honestly the stem of stereotypes.
- 41. This intelligence is our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age
- 43. a part of the long-term memory that is responsible for knowing how to do things
- 44. _______ amnesia an inability to retrieve information from one’s past
- 45. the study of understanding the meanings of words and word combinations
Down
- 2. Effect- a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain (2 words)
- 3. ___________ Effect Pioneered by Elizabeth Loftus, it states that a person's recall of an event is negatively impacted and becomes less accurate due to information after the event.
- 5. a test designed to predict a person’s future performance
- 6. This intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
- 7. ______ memory holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten (2 words)
- 8. American developmental psychologist who developed the theory of multiple intelligences
- 11. ________ intelligences is a theory developed by Howard Gardner, it suggests that traditional notions of intelligence are limited and should include linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligence
- 12. the process of getting information out of memory storage
- 14. _______ Set is an obstacle to problem solving which involves fixating only on solutions that have worked in the past.
- 16. the persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
- 18. the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information (2 words)
- 19. mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new solutions
- 21. a memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test
- 23. the activation of a memory by association. Hearing one stimulus associated with the memory leads to the activation of another.
- 25. in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
- 27. a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier; as on a fill-in-the-blank test
- 28. _________ Effect is our tendency to recall best the last (a recency effect) and first items (a primacy effect) in a list (2 words)
- 31. ________ Memory is a clear memory of an emotionally significant event. Like an exceptionally vivid 'snapshot' of a moment in time
- 33. in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
- 34. _______ phenomenon failing to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent (4 words)
- 35. __________ Adult Intelligence Scale the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests
- 36. _______ Heuristic a bias where you make a decision based on an example, information, or recent experience that is that readily available to you, even though it may not be the best example to inform your decision
- 40. psychologist most known for studying the science of forgetting by memorizing gibberish syllables
- 42. This is the Freudian concept that humans can unconsciously put painful or uncomfortable thoughts and memories out of their minds and forget them.