Across
- 3. an unstructured test in which a person is asked to respond freel giving his or her own interpretations of various ambiguous stimulation
- 6. limited or forced choice test in which a person must select one of several answers
- 8. chronological retention of the events of ones life
- 10. the ability of a test to measure what is intended to measure
- 11. assess an individual's characteristics and identifies problems
- 13. the awareness of or thinking about one's own cognitive process
- 15. the act of filling in memory gaps
- 17. memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material
- 18. the linking of new information to material that is already known
- 21. the expression of ideas through symbols and sounds that are arranged according to the rules
- 22. an individual sound that is a basic structural element of language
- 23. ranking of test scores that indicates the ratio of scores lower and higher than given score
- 27. fading away of memory overtime
- 28. knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meaning
- 29. measures a person's preferences and attitudes in a wide variety of activities to identity areas of likely success
- 31. a rule of thumb problem solving strategy
- 34. estimates the probability that a person ill be successful in learning a specific new skill
- 40. proposes that a person's intelligence involves analytical creative and practical thinking skills
- 41. proposes that a person's intelligence is composed of a general ability level and specific mental abilities
- 42. the study of meaning in language
- 43. memory retrieval in which a person identifies an object idea, or situation as one he or she has not experienced before
- 46. stage-a habitual strategy or pattern of problem solving
- 47. the transforming of information so the nervous system can process it
- 49. the process of grouping items to make them easier to remember
- 50. measures how much a person has learned in a given subject or area
Down
- 1. the smallest unit of meaning in a given language
- 2. the process by which information is maintained over a period of time
- 4. conceptual frameworks a person uses to make sense of the world
- 5. blockage of a memory by previous or subsequent memories or loss of a retrieval cue
- 7. stored knowledge that can be called forth consciously as needed
- 9. an aspect of an intelligence test in which the wording used in questions may be more familiar to people of one social groups than to another group
- 12. a statement of relation between concepts
- 14. a visual, mental representation of an event or object
- 16. standard of comparison for test results development by giving the test to large well defined groups of people
- 19. the alteration of a recalled memory that may be simplified, enhanced, or distorted opening on an individuals experiences, attitudes, or inferences
- 20. standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in wich 100 is average
- 24. an abstract unit of thought that represents an object or quality anything that stands for or represents something else
- 25. very brief memory storage immediately following initial stimulation of a receptor
- 26. the ability of a test gives the same results under similar conditions
- 30. permanent storage of learned skills that does not require conscious recollection
- 32. a step by step procedure for solving a problems
- 33. the process by which information is maintained over a period of time
- 35. the ability to remember with great accuracy visual information on the basis of short term exposure
- 36. interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities needed to understand and use knowledge of emotions effectively
- 37. memory that is limited in capacity to about seven items and in duration by the subjects active rehearsal
- 38. a system for remembering that involves repeating information to oneself without attempting to find he meaning in it
- 39. the administering and scoring of tests in the same way every time, establishing the average score made by a large group of people
- 44. the degree to which a characteristic is related to inherited genetic factors
- 45. fixedness- the inability to imagine new uses for familiar objects
- 48. language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences