Across
- 3. This “effect” happens when we are exposed to misleading information about an event and then we misremember what happened.
- 4. We saw subjects being asked to say the word “folk” several times, who then responded “yolk” to the question of what the white part of an egg is called. This is an example of ____.
- 7. This kind of memory relates to emotionally significant moments or events.
- 10. _____ memory is the term psychologists use for the “active desktop” where your brain processes information, making sense of new input and linking it with long-term memories.
- 11. You do this when you organize information into familiar, manageable units.
- 13. This cognitive bias occurs when you think you knew something all along, but you actually didn’t. You believe you could have predicted something would happen, but you didn’t.
- 15. This is the order of words in a sentence.
- 16. When particularly vivid examples of something come readily to mind, you may assume that such events are common. This is known as the _____ heuristic.
- 17. This kind of determinism, popularized by Benjamin Whorf, suggests that the language we speak defines how we think and perceive the world.
- 18. An early speech stage, in which a child uses mostly nouns and verbs, is called _____ speech.
- 19. When you encode explicit memories, you do it through this kind of conscious processing.
- 21. When you hold on to your original idea, even when it has been disproven, that’s _____ perseverance.
- 22. People who have this kind of amnesia cannot recall their past.
- 25. When you assume that an older cat lady is a librarian instead of a CEO, you are using a _____ heuristic.
- 27. This effect (2 words) is why you remember the first and last things in a list better than the stuff that was in the middle.
- 28. This psychologist’s research showed that we are likely to forget new information quickly, and then our forgetting levels off over time.
- 29. _____ memory is the term for facts and experiences you can consciously know and “declare”
Down
- 1. When old information keeps you from remembering new information (2 words)
- 2. The smallest unit of MEANING in a language is called a ____.
- 5. You are guaranteed to solve a problem when you use this a methodical, logical rule.
- 6. When you believe you know more than you actually do, you are suffering from this.
- 8. Being in the same physical location you were in when you learned something can help you remember it. This is called _____ memory (2 words.
- 9. We have learned about two kinds of this language disorder: Broca’s and Wernicke’s.
- 11. When you only look for information that agrees with what you already think, you are likely to suffer from this kind of bias.
- 12. This is how information gets into your memory system
- 14. People who have this kind of amnesia cannot form new memories.
- 20. The smallest unit of SOUND in a language is called a _____.
- 23. When you make choices in new situations based on what has worked for you in the past, you are using a _______ (two words)
- 24. Solving problems using this method is quick, but you may also make mistakes.
- 26. Sometimes the way an issue is presented has an impact on what we think of it. This is called _____.