Cognitive Learning Theory

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Across
  1. 3. The smallest unit of knowledge that can be verified.
  2. 6. Brief memory associated with various senses.
  3. 7. The meaning attached to sensory information.
  4. 11. The typical structure of a category of stories.
  5. 12. The ability to perform a task without having to think much about it.
  6. 13. A process through which we add and extend meaning by connecting new information to existing knowledge in long-term memory.
  7. 15. Knowledge about how to perform tasks.
  8. 18. Verbal information automatically enters the phonological loop and can interfere with a person's verbal task performance even if that person is not paying attention to the information.
  9. 20. A theory that asserts the recall of information is based on how deeply it is processed.
  10. 22. Memory of unknown, possibly unlimited, capacity and duration.
  11. 24. Knowledge that guides a person in using declarative and procedural knowledge.
  12. 29. An event or schema for the sequence of events in common situations, such as ordering food at a fast-food restaurant.
  13. 32. Real-world categories.
  14. 38. Loss of memories because information is not used.
  15. 43. Factual knowledge that can be expressed through verbal exchange, books, Braille, or sign language; knowing that something is true.
  16. 44. A set of interconnected pieces of information that contains knowledge for the long term.
  17. 46. Identifying the component features of objects and building a representation of the object from them.
  18. 47. Strategies for remembering nonmeaningful information by making it meaningful.
  19. 48. Attributes that must be presented for an instance to be a member of a particular category.
  20. 49. The component of working memory that processes verbal information.
Down
  1. 1. Loss or deficiency of memories because of the presence of other information.
  2. 2. An abstraction with which a person categorizes objects, people, ideas, or experiences by shared properties.
  3. 4. The basic structure for organizing information.
  4. 5. The grouping of bits of data into larger, meaningful units.
  5. 6. The memory a person has for meaning.
  6. 8. A limited memory system that includes both storage and manipulation functions.
  7. 9. The best representative of a category.
  8. 10. Focus that is selective and limited.
  9. 14. The link between memory span and the length of words to be recalled.
  10. 15. People make more errors recalling sets of words if the words they are asked to recall are similar in sound to one another.
  11. 16. The extent to which an object or idea belongs to a category.
  12. 17. The fact that the likelihood of information being recalled varies according to its position in a list.
  13. 19. memory for how to do things.
  14. 21. The component of working memory that processes visuospatial content.
  15. 23. A visual display of verbal information.
  16. 25. Memory for abstract information.
  17. 26. Long-term memory of particular places and events in a person's life.
  18. 27. A way of remembering information by connecting it to something that is already well known.
  19. 28. A cognitive process in which information in working memory is repeated to oneself frequently.
  20. 30. Memories are cued, then recognized.
  21. 31. Intense practice for a single period of time. Also known as cramming.
  22. 33. The retrieval of bits of information on the basis of their relatedness to one another.Remembering one piece of information stimulates the recall of associated knowledge.
  23. 34. A process in which a stimulus is analyzed into its components, then assembled into a recognizable pattern, also known as feature analysis.
  24. 35. Various senses.
  25. 36. Inclusion of a nonmember of a category or class to a category or class.
  26. 37. Cognitive process that require conscious attention.
  27. 39. Practice that is interspersed by unequal intervals.
  28. 40. The exclusion of some instances from a category or group even though they are true members of that category or group.
  29. 41. A type of perception in which a person uses what she or he knows about a situation to recognize patterns.
  30. 42. A temporary memory storage.
  31. 45. Information is retrieved from long-term memory.