Memory and Cognition

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Across
  1. 3. effect, testing yourself after learning new material is way better for your memory recall
  2. 5. psychology, the human tendency to organize what we see and look at the whole rather than the sum of parts
  3. 6. principle, We tend to remember and process pleasant memories more efficiently than unpleasant memories
  4. 14. motivation, Bianca was only motivated to go to work because she knew she would be rewarded with money
  5. 16. Meaning of words and sentences
  6. 17. creating smaller units from larger units in order to better remember the information
  7. 18. the mental activity that describes the acquisition, transformation, and use of knowledge
  8. 20. Using prior knowledge in order to gather and interpret stimuli taken from the senses
  9. 21. imagery, creating a mental representation of an object when it is not actually physically present
  10. 22. task, Paying attention to two or more messages at the same time, for example: reading a book and listening to music
  11. 25. effect, Tendency to recall information located in the beginning of list
  12. 26. ability to fluently speak and understand two languages
  13. 29. basic unit of spoken language
  14. 30. process, A process by which connections are made at the same time rather serial or one by one
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  1. 1. effect, Refers to our tendency to recall more items accurately that our last in our memory
  2. 2. code, Suggests our mental images resemble the physical object
  3. 4. memory, our memory of events that we experienced such as going on vacation with family
  4. 7. damage to the speech areas of brain causes a language production deficit
  5. 8. stimulus, actual object that you see in the environment ex. The coat on a bed
  6. 9. cognition, we better remember information when we use hand gestures to express our knowledge
  7. 10. the concentration of mental activity in order to focus on information available from both your senses and your memory
  8. 11. party effect, We may hear our name being mentioned at a loud party in one conversation even if we are listening to another conversation
  9. 12. memory, Memory for events and issues related to yourself
  10. 13. memory, remembering information from our past
  11. 15. search, trying all possible solutions to a problem
  12. 19. memory, facts and generalized knowledge we store and organize
  13. 23. a sequence of events we have such as
  14. 24. effect, Ben tends to provide shorter estimates when he is traveling to a landmark such as DC
  15. 27. congruence, If you are having a good day and feeling happy you will remember things that are congruent with your mood
  16. 28. blindness, when we overuse top-down processing we may do things such as failing to detect a change in an object or a scene