Memory and Cognition Review

3. psychology of how people use language to communicate ideas (interdisciplinary field)
4. people decide if an item belongs to a category based on a comparison to a prototypical item
6. concentration of mental activity
8. problems with the same underlying structures and solutions but different surface details
10. Difficulty remembering something new because of old material
13. the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts when it comes to organizing perceptions
14. communication using movements of parts of the body
16. going beyond the information given to reach a goal
17. rules that govern communication
19. relatively short kind of memory with a large capacity for sensory information
21. problem solving strategy that usually (but not always) produces the correct solution
24. component of working memory that integrates information and coordinates activities
26. mental representation of stimuli that are not present; relies on top down processing
27. takes place using prior knowledge and expectations in your memory, not sensory input
28. task that requires the reproduction of information from memory
29. acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge

1. the smallest unit of sound
2. memory for events that happen to you
5. people think that distances to landmarks are closer than traveling to a non-landmark.
7. Knowledge and control of cognitive processes, how you think about your thinking
9. failing to notice when something in the environment changes
10. a person performs many mental operations simultaneously
11. generalized knowledge about a situation or event
12. trying to identify the origin of a memory
15. thinking deeply about a concept and relating it to other knowledge to encode it in memory
18. mental strategy used to improve memory
20. when speakers in a conversation share the same background knowledge to facilitate understanding
22. a group of objects that belong together
23. taking a long time to name an ink color while inhibiting automatic reading of a color
25. difficulty with producing or understanding language, usually due to brain damage