Across
- 3. _____ effect: remembering items at the end of a list due to how recently you were exposed to them
- 5. _____ listening: when participants are instructed to listen to two different speakers at once
- 8. _____ memory: a form of memory that includes the subsets of iconic and echoic memory
- 11. the smallest unit of meaning in language
- 12. ______ technique: acronyms and acrostics are examples of this mnemonic concept
- 14. ______ coding: your mental image is best described with a language-like description, not an analogous image
- 16. _____ psychology: refers to the belief that humans have an innate tendency to organize the world around them
- 19. concentration of mental efforts on sensory or mental events
- 22. the school of thought that believes psychological study must focus on observable and objective behavior
- 23. the inability to create mental images
- 24. _____ state: the end result/position you would like to be in when the problem is solved
- 27. the Q in the SQR3 method for effective studying
- 29. central _____: the aspect of working memory that helps focus attention and coordinate behavior
- 31. _______ memory: the aspect of long term memory that contains memory about events that occurred in your life
Down
- 1. ______ cognition: using your own body and actions to express an idea or thought
- 2. uses top-down knowledge and experience to interpret surrounding stimuli
- 4. _____ method: create a mental image connecting a word you’re trying to learn with a word you think sounds similar
- 6. a type a schema that features a prototypical sequence of events
- 7. inability to recognize faces
- 8. joined sensations (ie smelling a color)
- 9. ______ problem: states that spoken words are not always separated by pauses or spaces like they are in text
- 10. refers to the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge
- 13. _____ theory: the idea that when people are asked to imagine a member of a certain category, they most often think of the most typical member of the category
- 15. 3-dimensional shape, used in the recognition-by-components theory
- 17. _____ aphasia: characterized by slow and effortful speech with good language comprehension
- 18. _____ bias: the idea that when we make errors in our speech, we usually tend mistakenly use actual words instead of making up non-words
- 20. self-______: a memory technique in which the individual connects an idea or fact to some aspect of themselves, or some other thing they can personally relate to
- 21. employ a solution to an earlier similar problem to the one you are dealing with now
- 25. ____-task: when participants in a study are instructed to both drive and talk on the phone
- 26. theory of _____: the ability to think from someone else’s perspective; bilingual children are theorized to have this ability earlier than monolingual
- 28. ______ models: describe connections or relationships between items
- 30. ______ specificity: the idea that where you study or take in information will affect how you perform on a test if the test is in the same location