Across
- 1. when individuals remember items presented at the beginning of a list better than those that follow. (2 words)
- 4. component of Working Memory responsible for processing and storing verbal and auditory information. (2 words)
- 8. form of short-term memory used for temporarily holding and manipulating information. (2 words)
- 10. the trend of average IQ scores increasing over generations (2 words)
- 13. a type of test used to measure a person's potential for learning.
- 14. type of memory that involves the recollection of personal experiences and specific events.
- 19. the phenomenon where individuals underperform in situations where they are told that their ethnicity, age or gender usually do not perform well. (2 words)
- 20. memory disorder characterized by an inability to form new memories usually following an accident of trauma while memories from before the event remain intact. (2 words)
- 21. type of test used to assess a person's knowledge or skills in a specific area.
- 23. remembering a word by relating it to similar words with similar meaning (2 words)
- 25. This type of memory does not require conscious thought
- 26. when the items at the end of a list are still in short-term memory at the time of recall, making them more easily remembered. (2 words)
- 28. type of memory retrieval used when you remember information better in the same place where you first learned it. (3 words)
- 30. occurs when new learning impairs the recall of previously encoded information. (2 words)
- 31. the first stage of memory processing
- 32. type of memory retrieval that involves identifying information when it is presented
Down
- 2. graphical representation of the rate at which memory fades over time. (2 words)
- 3. occurs when people have difficulty remembering recently learned information because of older information previously learned. (2 words)
- 5. type of memory that involves the recall of how to perform tasks or skills automatically, such as tying a knot.
- 6. measures if test scores can predict future performance accurately (2 words)
- 7. the tendency to forget items in the middle of a list but remember the beginning and end of the list better. (3 words)
- 9. according to researcher Elizabeth Loftus, this happens when new, incorrect information influences how we remember past events, severely impacting eyewitness accounts and the reliability of memory. (2 words)
- 11. the extent to which a test accurately measures what it is intended to measure. (2 words)
- 12. common memory experience where an individual feels confident that they know a word or a name, but cannot immediately recall it. (5 words)
- 15. the inability to remember the context of previously learned information, while retaining the factual knowledge. (2 words)
- 16. type of memory that is known as “remembering to remember” to do something in the future.
- 17. a fill-in-the-blank test without a word bank is an example of this type of memory retrieval
- 18. theory suggests that individuals possess different types of intelligence rather than one general intelligence (g). (2 words)
- 22. type of memory that briefly holds visual images.
- 24. the reason that people can not remember what happened to them before the age of 3. (2 words)
- 27. assesses consistency in test results by administering the same test to the same group more than once over a period of time. (3 words)
- 29. memory technique that involves associating items to be remembered with specific physical locations. (3 words)