Exam 4

3. Mental shortcut for quick decisions
7. Process by which sensory organs detect physical stimuli and convert it into neural signals
10. Awareness of one's own cognitive processes
12. Process by which the brain organizes and interprets sensory information
14. Effect showing better memory for words earlier in a list
16. Awareness of states or objects either internal to one's self or in one's external environment

1. Type of vivid, enduring memory for a significant, often historical, emotional event
2. The consistency of a test or measure
4. Smallest unit of language
5. Average representation of members in category
6. Type of intelligence related to one's ability to solve new problems
8. Memory for personal experiences
9. A state in which cognitive resources are focused on certain aspects of the environment rather than on others
10. Strategies to improve memory by imposing an organizational structure on to-be remembered material
11. Simple 3D shapes proposed as building blocks of object recognition
13. School of thought in psychology that focuses on responses to stimuli
15. Mental representations of objects, events, or abstract ideas