Cognitive Vocabulary

1. a type of forgetting that occurs when memories fade over time
6. a certain amount of information that learners must simultaneously think about, along with certain ways that they must think about it, in order to make sense of and remember what they're studying
7. of the Brain the brain’s ability to adapt to change across the lifespan and to rewire itself after damage
8. when the dependent variable has leveled out and is no longer responding to the independent variable
10. testing Theory of Mind
13. difficulty in learning new information because of already existing information
14. the most severe developmental disability
15. a facial expression that lasts a fraction of a second
16. a mathematical formula that is supposed to be a measure of a person's intelligence
17. identifying gender in the photo (to see if there were defects in face perception rather than a lack of theory of mind skills)
18. used to describe the aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorder

2. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering
3. difficulty recalling old information because of newly learned information
4. the active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting the information brought to the brain by the senses
5. a mild sort of autism
9. the ability humans have to recognize and attribute mental states not only in themselves but in other people and to understand that feelings and beliefs we have may be different than others.
11. the passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and to the brain
12. an intelligence test that measures the verbal and nonverbal abilities of adults
19. a standardized test that is designed to measure an individual's level of knowledge in a particular area
20. to prevent from being successful