Cognitive Vocabulary

4. difficulty recalling old information because of newly learned information
9. the active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting the information brought to the brain by the senses
10. a mild sort of autism
11. difficulty in learning new information because of already existing information
12. testing Theory of Mind
14. a mathematical formula that is supposed to be a measure of a person's intelligence
15. an intelligence test that measures the verbal and nonverbal abilities of adults
16. a certain amount of information that learners must simultaneously think about, along with certain ways that they must think about it, in order to make sense of and remember what they're studying
17. the passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and to the brain
18. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering
19. to prevent from being successful
20. the most severe developmental disability

1. used to describe the aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorder
2. the ability humans have to recognize and attribute mental states not only in themselves but in other people and to understand that feelings and beliefs we have may be different than others.
3. identifying gender in the photo (to see if there were defects in face perception rather than a lack of theory of mind skills)
5. a standardized test that is designed to measure an individual's level of knowledge in a particular area
6. when the dependent variable has leveled out and is no longer responding to the independent variable
7. a type of forgetting that occurs when memories fade over time
8. a facial expression that lasts a fraction of a second
13. of the Brain the brain’s ability to adapt to change across the lifespan and to rewire itself after damage