Written Assignment #3

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Across
  1. 1. Physical object you see in your environment
  2. 5. State you are in after you complete you goal
  3. 7. Pleasant stimuli is remember more than unpleasant stimuli
  4. 11. memory Phenomenon that people usually have a rich memory of very important world events (9/11, JFK assassination). These memories are usually not as accurate as people think they are
  5. 14. A goal that does not have an exact steps to solving it
  6. 15. Listening and trying to comprehend two messages at once. People can only efficiently listen to one message at a time
  7. 16. homographs False friends- words in two different languages that sound similar but do not mean the same thing
  8. 17. Mental shortcut
  9. 19. Recognizing a word by sounding out all of it’s parts
  10. 23. Recognizing a word by only using vision
  11. 25. Whole > sum of its parts. Humans often organize what they see into one thing instead of separating all of it into parts.
  12. 27. When something that was previously learned interferes with the learning of new material
  13. 29. A mental representation of a physical environment and it’s surroundings
  14. 30. Your mental representation of categories and the relationships between them
Down
  1. 2. Learning something over a number of spaced increments of time. More effective way of remembering material than massed learning
  2. 3. The most average, ideal representation of a item or category
  3. 4. Using real life examples to learn something. Example: using baking to learn about fractions
  4. 6. Doing the next immediate thing that will get you to your goal
  5. 8. Theoretical perspective that says an individual’s response is a direct reaction to an environmental stimulus
  6. 9. State you are in before you complete your goal
  7. 10. Bilingual people are faster at naming cognates than non-cognates
  8. 12. The tendency to extend the boundaries of our mental representative of a picture. Example: seeing trees behind a fence even though they were not in the picture you saw.
  9. 13. It is easier to recall stimuli if you are in the same mood/environment in which you learned the stimuli in
  10. 18. Trying to do two things at once. Results in ability to correctly and efficiently complete both tasks to decrease
  11. 20. Your perception and past experiences can influence how you interpret your environment
  12. 21. Only paying attention to information that agrees with your opinions
  13. 22. A mental representation of an object that looks like the physical object
  14. 24. Using our own body motions to represent abstract thoughts. Some problems are better solved when we can move our bodies to solve it.
  15. 26. The ability to recall the first items of a list better than items in the middle of the list
  16. 28. Repeating something you want to remember over and over again