Across
- 5. interpretation of sensations
- 7. deciding whether a particular object belongs in a certain category by comparing it to a prototype
- 8. aka working memory; duration is 10-15 seconds; brief memory for a limited amount of material
- 9. knowledge about a situation/event/person
- 13. concentration of mental effort on sensory or mental events; types of this include divided and selective
- 14. inability to call mental images to mind
- 15. joined sensations; for example, seeing sounds, hearing shapes, tasting colors
- 16. initial state, goal state, obstacles; strategies include algorithms, analogies and the hill climbing heuristic
- 18. doing the next immediate thing that seems directly related to your goal
- 20. a level of processing; says that recall is better if the context at time of encoding is the same at time of recall
- 23. a series of processes, operating on internal representations; our mental activity
- 24. has a large capacity; contains memory for experiences and information that one has collected throughout their life
- 25. whole>sum of parts
- 28. memory for general facts about the world
- 29. problem solving strategies that usually produce a correct solution
- 30. mental representations of non-present objects or events; involved in many cognitive tasks
Down
- 1. stutters, Freudian slips, etc.
- 2. requires one to identity the ends of the problem and then figure out the means to read those ends goals
- 3. one's knowledge and control of one's own cognitive processes
- 4. perception driven by hypothesis or past knowledge
- 6. memories about how to do certain things (ex. riding a bike)
- 10. how we adjust the pronunciation of a current sound
- 11. perception driven by sensory input
- 12. how we actually categorize different phonemes
- 17. initial reception of information
- 19. when one fails to recognize human faces
- 21. looking inward; thinking about one's own mental processes
- 22. memories for events that personally happened to you
- 26. conversational turn taking; people are good at knowing when to jump in and when not to jump in
- 27. the awareness that people have about the outside world; does not equal attention but is closely related