Across
- 6. a language’s set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds
- 9. language controls the way we think and interpret the world around us (2)
- 10. passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals
- 13. assessed by intelligence tests which present well-defined problems having a single right answer
- 15. the ability to perceive understand manage and use emotions (2)
- 20. a measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material again
- 21. processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously (2)
- 24. a test designed to predict a person’s future performance or capacity to learn (2)
- 26. a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli if attention is elsewhere lasting about 3 to 4 seconds
- 27. set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences
- 28. activated memory that holds a few items briefly (2)
- 30. the process of getting information into the memory system
- 32. the persistence of learning over time
- 33. a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
- 35. the immediate very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system (2)
- 36. a methodical logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
- 37. the smallest unit that carries meaning in a language
- 38. a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
- 39. the ability to learn from experience solve problems and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
- 41. ability to adapt to new situations and generate novel ideas
- 42. a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test (2)
Down
- 1. a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence (2)
- 2. encoding on a basic level (2)
- 3. a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitude and comparing them with those of others using a numerical score (2)
- 4. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
- 5. the process of getting information out of memory storage
- 7. in cognition the inability to see a problem from a new perspective
- 8. a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way that has often been successful in the past (2)
- 11. a test designed to assess what a person has learned (2)
- 12. a mental image or best example of a category
- 14. idea that language affects thought (2)
- 16. in a language the smallest distinctive sound unit
- 17. underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test (2)
- 18. a measure of memory in which the person identifies items previously learned
- 19. a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli lasting no more than a few tenths of a second
- 22. the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system (2)
- 23. a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill (2)
- 25. the process of retaining encoded information over time
- 29. a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently
- 31. required for everyday tasks that may be poorly defined and may have multiple solutions
- 34. encoding semantically based on the meaning of the words (2)
- 40. a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier