Across
- 2. refers to the grammatical rules that govern how we organize words into sentences
- 3. period hypothesis according to which, your ability to acquire a second language is strictly limited to a specified period of your life
- 10. mental strategies designed to improve your memory
- 13. the basic unit of spoken language
- 15. the area of psycholinguistics that examines the meanings of words and sentences
- 17. search an example of an algorithm where you try out all possible answers using a specified system
- 19. overall quality that transcends the individual elements
- 20. focuses on the social rules and the world knowledge that allow speakers to successfully communicate messages to other people
- 21. people with this condition cannot recognize human faces visually, though they perceive other objects relatively normally
- 22. effect a task that shows how people take a long time to name the ink color when that color is used in printing an incongruent word
- 25. a condition in which an individual with a damaged visual cortex claims not to see an object
- 26. during which, you process information and represent it in your memory
- 27. executive integrates information from the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, the episodic buffer, and long-term memory
Down
- 1. a grid consisting of rows and columns; it shows all possible combinations of items and is an excellent way to keep track of items
- 2. processing during which the system must complete one step or processing stage before information can proceed to the next step in the flowchart
- 3. map a mental representation of geographic information, including the environment that surrounds us
- 4. a memory unit that consists of several components that are strongly associated with one another
- 5. consists of your general knowledge or expectation, which is distilled from your past experiences with someone or something
- 6. interrelated units of language that are larger than a sentence
- 7. contours when we see edges even though they are not physically present in the stimulus
- 8. refers to the processes that allow you to locate information that is stored in long-term memory, and to have access to that information
- 9. difficulty communicating, typically as a result of damage to the brain caused by a stroke or tumor
- 11. code a representation that closely resembles the physical object
- 12. visibile movements of any part of the body, which you use to communicate
- 14. the smallest unit of knowledge that people can judge to be either true or false
- 16. refers to your knowledge and control of your cognitive processes
- 18. a simple, well-structured sequence of events in a specified order
- 21. the best, most typical example of a category
- 23. set of objects that belong together
- 24. a characteristic of a sound stimulus that can be arranged on a scale from low to high