Across
- 2. processing information and representing it in your mind; part of long-term memory
- 4. _____ listening: when participants are instructed to listen to two different speakers at once.
- 9. self-______: a memory technique in which the individual connects an idea or fact to some aspect of themselves, or some other thing they can personally relate to
- 11. ______ ambiguity: a sentence that may be ambiguous because of its sentence structure
- 13. the smallest unit of meaning in language
- 17. ______ bias: people estimate difference between two points is larger if there is a border in between
- 19. _____ effect: remembering items at the end of a list due to how recently you were exposed to them
- 20. inability to recognize faces
- 21. _____ state: the end result/position you would like to be in when the problem is solved
- 23. _____ psychology: refers to the belief that humans have an innate tendency to organize the world around them
- 24. ______ technique: acronyms and acrostics are examples of this mnemonic concept
- 25. problem-solving strategy that is a mental shortcut
- 27. _______ memory: remembering you need to do something in the future
- 29. ____-task: when participants in a study are instructed to both drive and talk on the phone
- 30. _____ aphasia: characterized by slow and effortful speech with good language comprehension
- 31. Theory of _____: the ability to think from someone else’s perspective; bilingual children are theorized to have this ability earlier than monolingual
Down
- 1. employ a solution to an earlier similar problem to the one you are dealing with now
- 3. units of language larger than a sentence
- 5. concentration of mental efforts on sensory or mental events
- 6. ______ models: describe connections or relationships between items
- 7. uses top-down knowledge and experience to interpret surrounding stimuli
- 8. the school of thought that believes psychological study must focus on observable and objective behavior
- 10. ______ cognition: using your own body and actions to express an idea or thought
- 12. refers to the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge
- 14. a type a schema that features a prototypical sequence of events
- 15. _____ method: create a mental image connecting a word you’re trying to learn with a word you think sounds similar
- 16. _____ theory: the idea that when people are asked to imagine a member of a certain category, they most often think of the most typical member of the category
- 18. ______ coding: your mental image is best described with a language-like description, not an analogous image
- 22. 3-dimensional shape, used in the recognition-by-components theory
- 26. _____ memory: a form of memory that includes the subsets of iconic and echoic memory
- 28. _______ memory: the aspect of long term memory that contains memory about events that occurred in your life
