Across
- 2. In regards to short-term memory, you tend to recall the items at the end of a list better. This effect is called:
- 6. a mental representation that resembles the physical object
- 7. Type of memory system that stores all of the information from each of your senses
- 9. type of processing that is said to be "data driven"
- 10. a divided attention task where you try to focus your attention on two or more tasks like simultaneously taking notes while listening to your professor lecture
- 12. Nancy studies for anatomy 3 hours a day, while Luke only studies 3 hours a week. Nancy does better than Luke on the final. This is explained by the ____ hypothesis.
- 14. mental representation of any kind of geographical information
- 15. Baddeley's Model of Working memory says that the central executive integrates informations from the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, and the:
- 18. if a student actually enjoys math, they are more likely to perform better in their math classes. This is because of:
- 20. Generalized knowledge about a specific event is called a:
- 22. when you are happy, you remember positive material better than negative material. This is because of what memory theory?
- 25. what kind of memory integrates your organized knowledge about the world?
- 26. What level of organization would "animal" be a part of?
- 27. Who derived the idea that language was "modular?"
- 28. Type of stimulus that is the physical object in the environment
- 29. when you refer to your own mental representations of a category, you create what?
Down
- 1. mental strategies that are used to improve memory
- 3. the abstract, language like representation of a mental image
- 4. these are bodily movements that convey meaning when communicating
- 5. the most basic unit of meaning
- 8. brain region involved in the basic processing of visual stimuli
- 11. Damage to this area typically results in deficits of understanding language
- 13. a type of discourse that storytellers use
- 16. condition where people cannot visually recognize human faces
- 17. Sarah's mom tells her that she will buy her food if she cleans up her room. What kind of motivation is this?
- 19. Your mom calls you to ask when you are going to be home so you are trying to ignore all of the loud noise around you since you are at a party. This is what kind of listening task?
- 21. when you cook an omelet, you are using what kind of memory?
- 23. Psychologist who believed that "introspection" should be used to study mental processes
- 24. you memorize a phone number by dividing it into 3 subunits, 443-002-0000, instead of 4430020000. This memorization technique is called:
- 25. what heuristic do you use when remembering figures as being more regular than how they truly are?