Memory and Cognition

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