Across
- 3. The smallest unit of knowledge that can be verified.
- 6. Brief memory associated with various senses.
- 7. The meaning attached to sensory information.
- 11. The typical structure of a category of stories.
- 12. The ability to perform a task without having to think much about it.
- 13. A process through which we add and extend meaning by connecting new information to existing knowledge in long-term memory.
- 15. Knowledge about how to perform tasks.
- 18. Verbal information automatically enters the phonological loop and can interfere with a person's verbal task performance even if that person is not paying attention to the information.
- 20. A theory that asserts the recall of information is based on how deeply it is processed.
- 22. Memory of unknown, possibly unlimited, capacity and duration.
- 24. Knowledge that guides a person in using declarative and procedural knowledge.
- 29. An event or schema for the sequence of events in common situations, such as ordering food at a fast-food restaurant.
- 32. Real-world categories.
- 38. Loss of memories because information is not used.
- 43. Factual knowledge that can be expressed through verbal exchange, books, Braille, or sign language; knowing that something is true.
- 44. A set of interconnected pieces of information that contains knowledge for the long term.
- 46. Identifying the component features of objects and building a representation of the object from them.
- 47. Strategies for remembering nonmeaningful information by making it meaningful.
- 48. Attributes that must be presented for an instance to be a member of a particular category.
- 49. The component of working memory that processes verbal information.
Down
- 1. Loss or deficiency of memories because of the presence of other information.
- 2. An abstraction with which a person categorizes objects, people, ideas, or experiences by shared properties.
- 4. The basic structure for organizing information.
- 5. The grouping of bits of data into larger, meaningful units.
- 6. The memory a person has for meaning.
- 8. A limited memory system that includes both storage and manipulation functions.
- 9. The best representative of a category.
- 10. Focus that is selective and limited.
- 14. The link between memory span and the length of words to be recalled.
- 15. People make more errors recalling sets of words if the words they are asked to recall are similar in sound to one another.
- 16. The extent to which an object or idea belongs to a category.
- 17. The fact that the likelihood of information being recalled varies according to its position in a list.
- 19. memory for how to do things.
- 21. The component of working memory that processes visuospatial content.
- 23. A visual display of verbal information.
- 25. Memory for abstract information.
- 26. Long-term memory of particular places and events in a person's life.
- 27. A way of remembering information by connecting it to something that is already well known.
- 28. A cognitive process in which information in working memory is repeated to oneself frequently.
- 30. Memories are cued, then recognized.
- 31. Intense practice for a single period of time. Also known as cramming.
- 33. The retrieval of bits of information on the basis of their relatedness to one another.Remembering one piece of information stimulates the recall of associated knowledge.
- 34. A process in which a stimulus is analyzed into its components, then assembled into a recognizable pattern, also known as feature analysis.
- 35. Various senses.
- 36. Inclusion of a nonmember of a category or class to a category or class.
- 37. Cognitive process that require conscious attention.
- 39. Practice that is interspersed by unequal intervals.
- 40. The exclusion of some instances from a category or group even though they are true members of that category or group.
- 41. A type of perception in which a person uses what she or he knows about a situation to recognize patterns.
- 42. A temporary memory storage.
- 45. Information is retrieved from long-term memory.