Writing Assignment #3~ PSYC 341

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  1. 1. When we confuse similar sounding letters and remember less of them compared to different sounding letters. “Z, T, C, G, P, D” is much harder to remember because of the similar sounding letters when compared to “O, Q, R, D, F, J” due to ______________ confusion.
  2. 3. Andrew remembers the tragic car accident that she was in when he was 6 years old. He thinks he remembers the exact location of the accident, and all the exact details of the memory. This is an example of a ____________ memory.
  3. 6. a phenomenon that refers to the delayed reaction time that occurs when you have to name the color but not the word. Example: The right answer is “Green” even though the word says “Blue” in green font.
  4. 8. A studying technique that is used to strengthen and boosts your long-term memory recall for study material. Example: Rehearsing and reading over material over and over again is not found to help you retain the information for your final exam in your long-term memory. If you want to better remember your PSYC341 material for your final in two weeks, you should use the __________ effect.
  5. 10. This theory is a narrow passageway in the information processing in humans. This narrow passageway is called the: ________ that limits the amount of information that we can pay attention to at once.
  6. 12. The retinal image of this crossword is the proximal stimulus while the physical copy of this crossword you are looking at right now is the:___________.
  7. 14. the tendency to remember figures and places being more symmetrical and regular than they actually are in real life. This is an example of our cognitive maps being idealized and standardized in our minds.
  8. 15. when you recall memories better when your mood is in harmony with the memories “mood” as well. Example: Jack remembers sad memories better when you he is sad, or happy memories when he is happy, or scary memories faster when he is in a “scared” mood.
  9. 18. Alaina hears colors, tastes shapes, and sees sounds. This joint sensation being evoked by another sense is called: ____________.
  10. 19. the basic unit of sound in spoken language. Example: the /k/ sound that occurs as “k” and “c” in words like skit or cat are different sounds from each other. This basic unit of /k/ sound is an example of a __________.
  11. 20. If you have to look for a pink “M” out of a paper full of all blue “M”s you are doing a ________ search. You have to look for only one thing “pink M” and not multiple conditions which is by it is used as part of your distributed attention rather than your focused attention since you can scan the page and quickly find what you are looking for.
  12. 22. (also referred to as the positivity bias) the tendency to remember pleasant or positive information rather than unpleasant or negative information. It is easier to remember positive information compared to negative information.
  13. 24. Melissa only does well in her science class because she knows her parents will give her a $100 for every A that she earns. Melissa is doing well because of an ___________ motivation, not because she enjoys Science but because of the promised reward she knows she will earn if she gets A’s.
  14. 26. Using “MCS DELL UMD UCLA LOL BTW OMG NBA JHU” to remember  “MCSDELLUMDUCLALOLBTWOMGNBAJHU” is a method students use to improve their memory often referred to as_________.
  15. 29. a law of organization: figure/ground and illusory/subjective contours are examples of this law. The tendency of human beings organizing everything that they see. We tend to view everything as a “whole” rather than divided parts. Example: seeing 3 pacmans put together as a white triangle (in the middle of the 3 pacmans). The tendency to see the white triangle (as a whole) and not the 3 pacmans separately.
  16. 30. the social language skills that we use to relay information, whether it is through what we say, how we say, or our body language. Kelly says “The final yesterday killed me, I literally couldn’t get out of the bed in the morning.” What Kelly means is that the final tired her out so much that she couldn’t get out of bed, not that she was actually killed. This “beyond the language” phenomena is an example of: ___________.
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  1. 2. Electronics is an example of a superordinate-level category, while a laptop is basic-level category, and a MacBook pro 2018 model is an example of a __________-level category.
  2. 4. a type of language deficit (that makes producing language difficult) that occurs after a stroke has damaged the frontal regions of the left hemisphere in your brain. Clara who has _________________ talks effortful but slow and grammatically incorrect sentences. She also comprehends what you communicate to her and is able to communicate back.
  3. 5. an example of depth perceptions in monocular cues that displays a lot more detail and gradient in a picture when comparing close objects/pictures to objects/pictures that are far away. Example: You can see a lot more detail of the close up picture of the sand with marks and shells but when the picture is far that same sand is much denser.
  4. 7. Charles is thinking about if he understands this question well enough: “Brothers and sisters I have none but this man's father is my father's son. Who is the man?” Charles thinking about his understanding of this question is an example of: __________.
  5. 9. a phenomena (also referred to as the “mind’s eye”) introduced by Tolman's Maze-Learning Experiment where the rat was conditioned to go a specific direction to get to it’s food but instead took a shortcut even though the rat had no idea the shortcut existed or it was an option before. Cognitive psychologists call this rat’s ability to make a shortcut to get to it’s food as a:_________.
  6. 11. When you are so focused on your laptop that you do not notice an orange monster walking by, this is an example of __________. This is when you fail to notice an unexpected and new appearance/object because your attention is focused on something else.
  7. 13. units of language that are larger than sentences. Example: Having a debate, telling a story, or having a discussion doesn’t require full sentence structures. A story/narrative that John has been explaining for the past 30 minutes have been larger than sentence structures, this is an example of _____________.
  8. 16. (also referred to as face blindness) due to brain damage, someone with this cognitive disorder cannot recognize familiar faces and believes that their family and friends are imposters.
  9. 17. mental strategies that are used to improve our memory or remembering things. Example: using imagery (imaging a key and a board in order to remember the word “keyboard”, using keyword method or first-letter technique.
  10. 21. the general tendency to estimate distances to landmarks or important places shorter (as a destination) when compared to a more general destination. Example: Colleen estimates that the distance from her house to the White House is shorter than her house to my house even though my house is closer to her when compared to the White House. This is an example of the ____________ effect.
  11. 23. the process of wanting to reach a specific goal. This process of finding solutions or reaching that goal may be very complex and unclear because of the important information that you are missing.
  12. 25. another word for mental activity. __________ is a branch in psychology that studies how information is attained, processed, transformed, and stored.
  13. 27. When I read the words “high, door, back, stress, finals, annoying” out loud, you are more likely to remember “finals” and “annoying” compared to “stress” and “back” because they are at the end of the list. Due to the __________ effect, you are more likely to recall the items at the end of the list better.
  14. 28. Anne has a damaged visual cortex and cannot physically see the laptop in my hand, but she is able to sense which direction I put the laptop in, the location of the laptop and how close it is to her. This condition is called: __________.
  15. 31. a simple sequence of events that take place in a specific order when a familiar event takes place. Example: Going to chipotle with your car. You have to open your door, sit in the driver’s seat, turn on the engine with your keys, put your foot on the gas pedal, and drive to your local chipotle. Then you have to walk in chipotle and tell them what exactly you want on your burrito/bowl. This is an example of a _________.