Cognitive Psychology

2. concentrate on a specific meaning of a particular concept
4. specific examples of a concept then classify the new stimulus based on how closely it resembles those specifics
6. where you able to recall information at the beginning
7. your knowledge and control on your cognitive process
11. people that typically do not show intense emotions and may have hallucinations
16. a structure underneath the cortex that is important in many learning and memory tasks
18. focusses on social rules and world knowledge as ways to communicated effectively to other people
20. stores the meaning of a message rather than the exact words
21. language units that are larger than a sentence
24. small problems
25. mental activity that describes the acquisition, storage, transformation and the use of knowledge
26. repeated information you want to learn
28. recognize words by trying to pronounce the individual letter words
29. always produce a solution to a problem sometimes ineffective
31. overall quality that transcends its individual elements
33. able to recall information easily that are the latest
34. a general rule that's typically accurate

1. when variables has large effects on one test but little or no effects on an other test
3. a mental representation that resembles a physical object
5. each hemisphere of the brain have different functions
8. takes a long time to name the ink color when that color does not match the word that is printed
9. you do something based on what the sentence asked for
10. one unit located within the network
12. a topic that refers to people's knowledge, monitoring, and control of their memory
13. trying to accomplish two or more task at the same time
14. a characteristic of a sound stimulus that can be arranged on a scale from low to high
15. loss of memory for events that occurred prior to brain damage
17. a well structured sequenced of events in specific order
19. mental strategies designed to improve memory
22. Exceptional skill and performance on tasks
23. combine several small units into larger units
27. basic unit of meaning
30. general tendency to provide shorter estimates when traveling to a landmark
32. knowledge about the situation, an event, or a person