Across
- 2. people tend to think that the distance from one point to another is shorter when the destination point is a well-known landmark, versus a a point that is not a landmark
- 3. people identify their end-goal before determining the thing(s) they need to do in order to reach that goal
- 4. when people are told to identify the color a word is written in, when the word itself is a different color than it’s printed in, it takes longer than if the color and the word are the same (i.e. “green” written in blue ink versus “green” written in green ink)
- 5. people have a better time remembering, or recalling, the first items in a list
- 8. when people are attempting to reach a goal, and they have to make a choice regarding what to do, they choose the option that seems as if it would be the most direct route to their goal
- 9. when bilingual people learn their two languages at one specific time as a child
- 12. a term used when describing how people sometimes look back at previously read words when one does not understand material while speed reading
- 14. the smallest audio unit in relation to language (i.e. “a” and “th”)
- 19. people have difficulty remembering, or recalling, old, or previously-learned information due to new information interfering with the process
- 21. information is able to be processed and remembered better when it is viewed as pleasant to an individual
- 23. people have a better time remembering, or recalling, the last items in a list
- 24. people do better at remembering and/or retrieving long-term information for school when they take tests as a form of “studying”
- 26. people have a better time remembering, or recalling, things that are similar to their mood at that moment in time (i.e. they are better at remembering negative things when they are in a negative mood)
- 27. sometimes people are unable to notice when something, such as an item, changes (i.e. not noticing that someone quickly changes shirts in the middle of a conversation when you are distracted from them briefly by a stranger asking for directions)
- 29. when people have brain damage, sometimes they lose memory of things that happened before the damage occurred
- 30. a form of mnemonic in which the first letter of a list or sequence of words are put together to create a word or sentence that is easier to remember
Down
- 1. when bilingual people learn their two languages at two different times (i.e. native language versus non-native language)
- 6. people have difficulty remembering, or recalling, information if they learn all of it at one time
- 7. people can shift back and forth between what is the figure and what is the ground/background dependent upon what they focus on and therefore which section of the picture stands out the most (i.e. the vase or face effect)
- 10. people have difficulty remembering, or recalling, newly-learned information due to old information interfering with the process
- 11. people are able to focus on one auditory item when there are multiple auditory stimuli present at once (i.e. being able to focus in on one conversation while at a party where there are multiple conversations and other auditory stimuli occurring at once)
- 13. in order to learn information, people can think of multiple examples of that one item, and then compare the item to the examples in order to categorize it
- 15. people determine if an item is in a specific group, or category, by comparing that one item with its prototype
- 16. people have multiple views of a three-dimensional object saved in their memory in order to help them recognize what the object is (i.e. recognizing that an item is a flashlight regardless of the way/direction it is being viewed)
- 17. people have a better time remembering, or recalling, information if they plan out learning the information over a period of time
- 18. a way in which people store information via the use of their senses (i.e. visual and/or auditory memory)
- 20. when people have brain damage, sometimes they lose memory of things that happened after the damage occurred
- 22. after brain damage, some people are unable to tell people’s faces apart (also known as “face blindness”)
- 25. a way people can increase their short-term memory capacity by breaking up a list of information into different sections (generally seven sections, plus or minus two) that all have a common theme (i.e. CIAAOLMLBNBAFBI being chunking into CIA-AOL-MLB-NBA-FBI)
- 28. after brain damage, people have trouble communicating to others