PSYC341 Writing Assignment 3

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Across
  1. 5. interpretation of sensations
  2. 7. deciding whether a particular object belongs in a certain category by comparing it to a prototype
  3. 8. aka working memory; duration is 10-15 seconds; brief memory for a limited amount of material
  4. 9. knowledge about a situation/event/person
  5. 13. concentration of mental effort on sensory or mental events; types of this include divided and selective
  6. 14. inability to call mental images to mind
  7. 15. joined sensations; for example, seeing sounds, hearing shapes, tasting colors
  8. 16. initial state, goal state, obstacles; strategies include algorithms, analogies and the hill climbing heuristic
  9. 18. doing the next immediate thing that seems directly related to your goal
  10. 20. a level of processing; says that recall is better if the context at time of encoding is the same at time of recall
  11. 23. a series of processes, operating on internal representations; our mental activity
  12. 24. has a large capacity; contains memory for experiences and information that one has collected throughout their life
  13. 25. whole>sum of parts
  14. 28. memory for general facts about the world
  15. 29. problem solving strategies that usually produce a correct solution
  16. 30. mental representations of non-present objects or events; involved in many cognitive tasks
Down
  1. 1. stutters, Freudian slips, etc.
  2. 2. requires one to identity the ends of the problem and then figure out the means to read those ends goals
  3. 3. one's knowledge and control of one's own cognitive processes
  4. 4. perception driven by hypothesis or past knowledge
  5. 6. memories about how to do certain things (ex. riding a bike)
  6. 10. how we adjust the pronunciation of a current sound
  7. 11. perception driven by sensory input
  8. 12. how we actually categorize different phonemes
  9. 17. initial reception of information
  10. 19. when one fails to recognize human faces
  11. 21. looking inward; thinking about one's own mental processes
  12. 22. memories for events that personally happened to you
  13. 26. conversational turn taking; people are good at knowing when to jump in and when not to jump in
  14. 27. the awareness that people have about the outside world; does not equal attention but is closely related