Chapter 8 Vocabulary

2. action sequences or plans for action stored in memory.
6. knowing how to manage learning.
7. basic structures for organizing information.
8. long-term memory for how to do things.
11. information that is useful in many different kinds of tasks.
13. mental representation used to group similar events, ideas, objects, or people into a category.
14. small amount of information that can be held in mind and used in the execution of cognitive tasks.
15. pertains to a particular task or subject.
16. a general approach that views learning as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering, and using knowledge.

1. "knowing how" to do something.
3. knowledge we are not conscious of recalling, but that influences behavior or thought without our awareness.
4. permanent storage of knowledge.
5. knowledge that can be declared through words and symbol systems. ("knowing that")
9. long-term memories that can be recalled.
10. volume of resources necessary to complete a task
12. interpretation of sensory information.