Across
- 3. Effect for us to remember the last items on a list better than those that came earlier on.
- 6. Severe deficit in episodic memory.
- 8. Process of locating and drawing upon information that has been stored within your memory.
- 10. Approach to psychology that is entirely based on observable interactions with the environment.
- 13. Deep level of processing that requires interconnection of well-known concepts and broad description of meaning.
- 16. Mental strategies designed to improve memory. Includes mental imagery, keyword method, and others.
- 18. According to the word ______ effect we can identify a single letter more rapidly and accurately if it appears in a recognizable word rather than if it is mixed with random letters.
- 19. Knowledge and control over one’s own cognitive processes. Also known as “thinking about thinking.”
- 20. Description of a sound stimulus that can be arranged in order from low to high based on a scale of sounds.
- 25. Type of validity found in experiments that take place in a setting either the same or similar to the participants’ natural setting.
- 27. General, long-term reaction to a specific stimulus. Interchangeable with emotion for casual purposes, but not psychological purposes.
- 28. Collection of millions of neurons on the inside back portion of the eye, registers and transmits visual information.
- 29. Limited concentration of mental activity where one takes in information from both their surrounding world and their memory.
- 30. Recognition-by-components theory states that we recognize shapes of objects using an arrangement of smaller 3-D components called ______.
Down
- 1. Also known as “short term memory,” lasts about thirty seconds and only contains what you are actively thinking about.
- 2. An early theory of visual psychology stating that we have a visual ______ stored in our minds for each different kind of stimulus that we can identify.
- 4. General knowledge and expectations, internal representation of something based upon memories.
- 5. System where items are organized based on class, going from most general down to more specific.
- 7. Memorization method of repeating items either silently or aloud.
- 9. Active or passive thoughts, feelings, and awareness about your external world and internal ideas.
- 11. Memory strategy where large strands of information are broken down into smaller, memorable pieces.
- 12. Broad strategy used to solve problems more effectively. Does not always yield the correct solution.
- 14. Condition with which individuals with damaged visual cortex claims they have no visual access to the information, but can accurately sense objects in their surroundings.
- 15. Use of prior knowledge used to gather and interpret sensory information.
- 17. Type of memory task that specifically tests your ability to retrieve previously learned information.
- 21. The central _____ works in conjunction with the visuospatial sketchpad, phonological loop, and long-term memory in order to form working-memory.
- 22. Psychological approach emphasizing human tendency to organize visual information as a whole rather than as a sum of its parts
- 23. Mental representation of a category that can be used to describe items within said category.
- 24. Process of reception of information and storage/representation of it within your memory.
- 26. Indirect assessment of memory, generally done using a series of pictures or words.