Cognition Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
  2. 4. a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
  3. 9. psychologist who developed the triarchic theory on intelligence, which features practical, creative, and analytical intelligence
  4. 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
  5. 13. ________ Perseverance the tendency to continue believing something even after evidence supporting it has been contradicted.
  6. 15. The set of rules governing how symbols in a given language are used to form meaningful expressions.
  7. 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
  8. 20. test the widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test (2 words)
  9. 22. Mood _______ memory is the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current good or bad mood
  10. 24. _________ Intelligence is our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood
  11. 26. the way that a problem is presented to someone, and it can drastically change that person's view or reaction to the problem.
  12. 29. __________Determinism the idea that the language you speak influences your thinking.
  13. 30. __________ Bias the tendency of individuals to support or search for information that aligns with their opinions and ignore information that doesn't.
  14. 31. ________ Effect the phenomenon in which there is a marked increase in intelligence test score averages over time
  15. 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
  16. 37. ________interference is the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
  17. 38. _________ memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste.
  18. 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.
  19. 41. This intelligence is our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age
  20. 43. a part of the long-term memory that is responsible for knowing how to do things
  21. 44. _______ amnesia an inability to retrieve information from one’s past
  22. 45. the study of understanding the meanings of words and word combinations
Down
  1. 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)
  2. 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.
  3. 5. a test designed to predict a person’s future performance
  4. 6. This intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
  5. 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)
  6. 8. American developmental psychologist who developed the theory of multiple intelligences
  7. 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
  8. 12. the process of getting information out of memory storage
  9. 14. _______ Set is an obstacle to problem solving which involves fixating only on solutions that have worked in the past.
  10. 16. the persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
  11. 18. the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information (2 words)
  12. 19. mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new solutions
  13. 21. a memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test
  14. 23. the activation of a memory by association. Hearing one stimulus associated with the memory leads to the activation of another.
  15. 25. in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
  16. 27. a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier; as on a fill-in-the-blank test
  17. 28. _________ Effect is our tendency to recall best the last (a recency effect) and first items (a primacy effect) in a list (2 words)
  18. 31. ________ Memory is a clear memory of an emotionally significant event. Like an exceptionally vivid 'snapshot' of a moment in time
  19. 33. in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix)
  20. 34. _______ phenomenon failing to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent (4 words)
  21. 35. __________ Adult Intelligence Scale the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests
  22. 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
  23. 40. psychologist most known for studying the science of forgetting by memorizing gibberish syllables
  24. 42. This is the Freudian concept that humans can unconsciously put painful or uncomfortable thoughts and memories out of their minds and forget them.