Across
- 3. People have issues remembering certain things because previously learned information is interrupting and getting in the way of new information.
- 5. This involves making up some type of story that puts certain words together in order to remember them more efficiently.
- 8. It is easier to process pleasant things than unpleasant things. For example, it is easier to recall pleasant words than unpleasant words.
- 14. This refers to the lack of the ability to make new memories after the accident when the brain damage took place.
- 20. both of the hemispheres of the brain have different functions.
- 21. this states that it is easier to recall information if you try to retrieve it in a similar state to where and how you encoded it in the first place.
- 22. A type of visual processing in which the person’s beliefs about a stimulus affect how they perceive and identify the stimulus.
- 25. recalling information that you have learned before
- 26. a type of error in which the person remembers certain things that they never actually saw.
- 28. When a person believes that their amount of intelligence cannot change or grow.
- 29. When a person cannot recognize faces but can recognize other objects and things.
- 30. this is an action that refers to different aspects of how people use knowledge. They are able to gain, store, convert, and use it.
Down
- 1. When someone decides if something is part of a certain group by comparing it to the most representative example of something from that category.
- 2. when people remember things best that are at the beginning of some type of a list
- 4. A person’s ability to learn a second language is highly influenced by the age of the person and is limited to a certain time period in a person’s life.
- 6. this refers to a picture in a person’s mind that looks like the actual physical object.
- 7. when both people in a conversation share common information, which makes the communication possible.
- 9. This refers to when people imagine that they have seen a larger portion of a view than they actually have seen.
- 10. This refers to the lack of ability to remember things that happened before an accident where damage to the brain took place.
- 11. When a person attempts to pay attention to two different things at the same time and tries to respond to each
- 12. Issues can arise when certain words have different meanings and people have to decide which meaning is being used.
- 13. A person will have an easier time remembering something if they are able to somehow make the information have to do with themselves.
- 15. people think that the distance between two places is greater if they are located on different sides of a border than if they are both on the same side.
- 16. people tend to remember things as being more horizontal or vertical than they actually are.
- 17. definition this describes how different things can be measured
- 18. When a person attempts to focus only on one thing while ignoring other stimuli.
- 19. memory that involves remembering things that have happened to a person in their past.
- 23. This refers to the real object as it is in the world
- 24. when a stereotype about your group leads you to do worse or suffer due to the threat.
- 27. People have trouble naming the color of a word when the word that is written is the name of another color. Example: A word with yellow ink says red. The person will take a longer time to say yellow than if the word was not another color or if it matched the color of the ink.