Honors Vocab: Memory, Thinking, Intelligence

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Across
  1. 3. an unstructured test in which a person is asked to respond freel giving his or her own interpretations of various ambiguous stimulation
  2. 6. limited or forced choice test in which a person must select one of several answers
  3. 8. chronological retention of the events of ones life
  4. 10. the ability of a test to measure what is intended to measure
  5. 11. assess an individual's characteristics and identifies problems
  6. 13. the awareness of or thinking about one's own cognitive process
  7. 15. the act of filling in memory gaps
  8. 17. memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material
  9. 18. the linking of new information to material that is already known
  10. 21. the expression of ideas through symbols and sounds that are arranged according to the rules
  11. 22. an individual sound that is a basic structural element of language
  12. 23. ranking of test scores that indicates the ratio of scores lower and higher than given score
  13. 27. fading away of memory overtime
  14. 28. knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meaning
  15. 29. measures a person's preferences and attitudes in a wide variety of activities to identity areas of likely success
  16. 31. a rule of thumb problem solving strategy
  17. 34. estimates the probability that a person ill be successful in learning a specific new skill
  18. 40. proposes that a person's intelligence involves analytical creative and practical thinking skills
  19. 41. proposes that a person's intelligence is composed of a general ability level and specific mental abilities
  20. 42. the study of meaning in language
  21. 43. memory retrieval in which a person identifies an object idea, or situation as one he or she has not experienced before
  22. 46. stage-a habitual strategy or pattern of problem solving
  23. 47. the transforming of information so the nervous system can process it
  24. 49. the process of grouping items to make them easier to remember
  25. 50. measures how much a person has learned in a given subject or area
Down
  1. 1. the smallest unit of meaning in a given language
  2. 2. the process by which information is maintained over a period of time
  3. 4. conceptual frameworks a person uses to make sense of the world
  4. 5. blockage of a memory by previous or subsequent memories or loss of a retrieval cue
  5. 7. stored knowledge that can be called forth consciously as needed
  6. 9. an aspect of an intelligence test in which the wording used in questions may be more familiar to people of one social groups than to another group
  7. 12. a statement of relation between concepts
  8. 14. a visual, mental representation of an event or object
  9. 16. standard of comparison for test results development by giving the test to large well defined groups of people
  10. 19. the alteration of a recalled memory that may be simplified, enhanced, or distorted opening on an individuals experiences, attitudes, or inferences
  11. 20. standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in wich 100 is average
  12. 24. an abstract unit of thought that represents an object or quality anything that stands for or represents something else
  13. 25. very brief memory storage immediately following initial stimulation of a receptor
  14. 26. the ability of a test gives the same results under similar conditions
  15. 30. permanent storage of learned skills that does not require conscious recollection
  16. 32. a step by step procedure for solving a problems
  17. 33. the process by which information is maintained over a period of time
  18. 35. the ability to remember with great accuracy visual information on the basis of short term exposure
  19. 36. interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities needed to understand and use knowledge of emotions effectively
  20. 37. memory that is limited in capacity to about seven items and in duration by the subjects active rehearsal
  21. 38. a system for remembering that involves repeating information to oneself without attempting to find he meaning in it
  22. 39. the administering and scoring of tests in the same way every time, establishing the average score made by a large group of people
  23. 44. the degree to which a characteristic is related to inherited genetic factors
  24. 45. fixedness- the inability to imagine new uses for familiar objects
  25. 48. language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences