Psych 341: Chapter 1-11 Terms

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Across
  1. 7. Concentration of mental effort on sensory or mental event
  2. 8. Effect where there is a recall failure accompanied by a strong feeling of imminent retrieval. Strong feeling that you will soon retrieve the information pretty quickly in the future.
  3. 9. Your mental representation of categories.
  4. 10. use of mental strategies to improve a person's memory.
  5. 13. A professor looks out at her class and notices that Jackie is falling asleep. She says loudly, "Wouldn't you be more comfortable in your own bed, Jackie?" The professor is using a kind of directive known as
  6. 15. Theory in which we organize things into a category based on the most typical example of that category (the prototype).
  7. 16. Using helpful information in our immediate environment/ situation to create spatial representations. (Ex: Baking a pie or cookies to help you solve fractions)
  8. 18. Basic unit of spoken language
  9. 19. Effect in which what we see overrides what we hear, but if we close our eyes, we realize the sound does not change.
  10. 20. Problem in which we need to transform thoughts or mental images into a linear sequence of words/sounds. For instance, when we speak, we need to produce the words one at a time, which is a difficult task.
  11. 24. How you interpret that information you receive from your environment/ how you interpret sensation.
  12. 25. Process by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered and used.
  13. 27. Effect Words at the end of the list (recent) easy to recall.
  14. 28. Hypothesis that states that when you mesh your actual learning style with the way you're learning it, you are going to do best.
  15. 29. Type of interference in which new learning interferes with old memories
  16. 31. Inability to voluntarily call mental images to mind (can't form mental images, use language to describe everything you see).
Down
  1. 1. Recognition of object/ process what you're seeing.
  2. 2. Effect in which the first few words in a list are easy to recall
  3. 3. Type of fallacy in which we assume a small sample will be representative of the population than a large one.
  4. 4. When you have "joined sensations". (ex: see different sounds, hear shapes, or taste colors).
  5. 5. When you have to zoom in, it takes longer to come up with answer.
  6. 6. Physical object in the environment.
  7. 11. Repeating something someone says (like a child).
  8. 12. Recall failure accompanied by a future ability to recognize the item.May not be able to recall the information immediately, but will be able to recognize it if you has clues.
  9. 14. When your two eyes are focusing on an object,muscles around the eyes are going to tell us how far away the object is.
  10. 17. Effect in which people are faster to judge prototypes as members of a category than non-prototypes
  11. 21. Thinking about our own mental processes and report what we think is going on (self-report).
  12. 22. Type of interference in which old learning interferes with new memory
  13. 23. Basic unit that conveys meaning
  14. 26. Method that always produce a solution to problem, but process may be inefficient (take a long time). For instance, using the exhaustive method to solve a word problem by coming up with all possible solutions.
  15. 30. Type of fallacy in which if you keep getting the same results, you think that you will continue to get the same probability (odds of getting the other thing is lower)