Cognitive Psychology Crossword
Across
- 3. study technique that is effective for STM yet ineffective for LTM
- 4. type of memory with a capacity of about 7 ± 2” units/things
- 6. basic unit of spoken language
- 7. processing that is driven by sensory input
- 11. 99% visual, harder to remember, and occur at any sleep stage
- 13. if you're in a good mood, its easier to remember happy things than sad things
- 15. 3D shapes that make up objects
- 17. seeing sound, hearing shapes, tasting colors
- 21. makes up two thirds of conversation
- 22. receptors that are sensitive to lowlight and help with peripheral vision
- 23. pictureless mind
- 24. type of blindness where someone doesn't notice something obvious in front of them when their attention is engaged elsewhere
- 25. according to the Pollyanna principle, between remembering positive things vs negative things, people are better at remembering…
Down
- 1. interference where new memory interferes with old memory
- 2. conversation of energy from one form into another form that the brain can understand
- 5. processing constrained by prior knowledge, expectations, and context
- 8. effect where things that appear first in a list are remembers best because people rehearsed these most
- 9. face blindness or the inability to recognize faces
- 10. effect that explains the Ba vs Pa phenomenon because people integrate info across different senses to making the best sense with the info they have
- 12. locating information from LTM
- 14. effect that occurs when someone says your name when aren’t paying attention but still hear it
- 16. something you are paying right now to complete this puzzle
- 18. task that revealed that the capacity of sensory memory is basically unlimited
- 19. type of memory, for example: the capital of maryland is annapolis
- 20. type of memory, for example: how to ride a bike