Across
- 3. the basic unit of spoken language
- 12. the beginning situation of a problem
- 14. a method of storage that is based on language
- 18. a parabola shaped relationship between a word's position in a list and people's ability to remember it
- 19. a type of attention where one is adhering to 2 or more messages at the same time
- 22. the basic unit of meaning in a language
- 25. a type of memory that includes remembering things one must do in the future
- 26. grammatical rules of a language
- 28. social rules and world knowledge that allow people to communicate in a given culture
- 29. the smallest unit of information that can be determined true or false
Down
- 1. a series of mental strategies entailed used to improve one's memory
- 2. the information registered by your senses from the outside stimulus
- 4. an interpretation of stimuli presented to the brain by the senses
- 5. a concept that discusses the relationship between physical movements or gestures and language
- 6. the stage of a problem when it has been solved
- 7. an approach that suggests that information is learned by looking at specific examples of a concept and comparing new information to these examples to classify it
- 8. the process by which elements of a problem into an alternative format
- 9. a way of increasing memory that entails relating information to oneself
- 10. a type of memory that holds memories of one's personal experiences for a lifetime
- 11. the actual object in an environment
- 13. a type of attention where one is adhering to one message while blocking out other ones
- 15. a type of memory that holds facts and general knowledge of the world
- 16. a mental representation of objects that are not really there
- 17. a type of memory that holds knowledge of steps to do things
- 18. a type of memory that records information specifically from the body's senses
- 20. a method of storage that is based on images
- 21. a task testing selective attention where one must name an ink color when the word it is printing reads a different color
- 23. a type of memory which holds a limited amount of material for a very short time
- 24. a theoretical perspective of psychology that focuses on observable behavior
- 27. an item that is the ideal representation of a category