AP Psychology| Unit 2: Cognition

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Across
  1. 2. a method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful in some way
  2. 3. analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information
  3. 4. estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common
  4. 5. A newer understanding of short-term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory.
  5. 7. A mnemonic technique that involves associating items on a list with a sequence of familiar physical locations
  6. 11. a network of associated facts and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world
  7. 13. the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood
  8. 17. the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
  9. 18. people make decisions about a current situation based on what they have previously invested in the situation
  10. 19. failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of inattentional blindness
  11. 20. a mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another
  12. 21. retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection
  13. 22. the inability to recall specific information because of insufficient encoding of the information for storage in long-term memory
Down
  1. 1. a mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case
  2. 6. the tendency to perceive an item only in terms of its most common use
  3. 8. a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
  4. 9. shortcuts or "rules of thumb" that often lead to a solution (but not always).
  5. 10. gradual strengthening of the connections among neurons from repetitive stimulation
  6. 12. information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations
  7. 14. techniques for using associations to memorize and retrieve information
  8. 15. the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input
  9. 16. expands the number of possible problem solutions