PSYC341 Crossword (Fall23’)

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Across
  1. 2. ___ are a kind of problem solving strategy that rely on practical knowledge and experience (or “rules of thumb”)
  2. 4. the mental representation of categories
  3. 5. objects that we group together based on shared common properties and features
  4. 6. method of communication among bees
  5. 7. general knowledge and information gained about the world around us that helps to categorize objects and concepts
  6. 12. ____ language refers to the structure of a language as majority people think it should be used
  7. 15. techniques that serve to improve one’s ability to retrieve/recall pieces of information that were once encoded and stored in memory.
  8. 16. term used to describe the state wherein a person is conscious/aware of their thought processing
  9. 18. any information that a speaker and listener share or assume they share
  10. 19. ___ occurs when someone comes up with an idea/solution that is thought to be original, useful, and surprising
  11. 20. Aphasia type of aphasia that inhibits language comprehension
  12. 23. catering of one’s speech to the person they are speaking to by considering the listener’s general knowledge
  13. 25. Preparing a new dish for one’s family would be an example of ___ _ creativity.
Down
  1. 1. loss of memory pertaining to comprehension of words and semantic processing resulting from damage to the the anterior temporal lobes
  2. 3. someone like Picasso is considered to have ___ _ creativity
  3. 8. type of amnesia that leaves people unable to recall memories from past
  4. 9. Aphasia type of aphasia that inhibits language production
  5. 10. ambiguity ___ ambiguity occurs when one or more words in a sentence can be understood as having two or more distinct meanings
  6. 11. ____ theory posits that upon learning a category, we develop a schema that generally applies to the whole category often creating an ideal/best object within the category
  7. 13. type of amnesia that leaves people unable to form new memories
  8. 14. ____ language refers to the structure of a language as it’s used by speakers and writers, regardless of what’s “right”.
  9. 17. the most basic unit of sound pertaining to language
  10. 21. according to ___ theory, we develop broad examples of a category that are used to guide categorization of new objects based on how similarly it resembles these prior examples within a given category
  11. 22. in reality most categories are ____
  12. 24. when a sentence can be interpreted in two or more ways due to the structure of the sentence, this is known as ____ ambiguity