Across
- 6. processing that emphasizes how a person’s concepts, expectation, and memory can influence object recognition
- 7. a system in which items are arranged in a series of classes, from the most general classes to the most specific
- 8. phenomenon that says that people tend to rate unpleasant past events more positively with the passage of time
- 10. a mental representation of geographic information, including the environment that surrounds us
- 11. locating information in storage and accessing that information
- 13. our organized knowledge about the world
- 15. your knowledge and control of your cognitive processes
- 18. an interdisciplinary field that examines how people use language to communicate ideas
- 21. the inability to recognize human faces visually, though people with this perceive other objects relatively normally
- 23. this integrates information from the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, the episodic buffer, and long-term memory
- 25. repeating items silently to oneself
- 28. mental representation of objects, actions, or ideas that are not physically present
- 29. the sound quality of a tone
- 30. processing information and representing it in your memory
Down
- 1. the smallest meaningful units in language
- 2. a condition in which an individual with a damaged visual cortex claims not to see an object; however, he or she can accurately report some characteristics of that object, such as its location
- 3. our knowledge of the social rules that underlie language use
- 4. the observation that our recall is especially accurate for the final items in a series of stimuli
- 5. the information registered on your sensory receptors, the image an object creates on your retina
- 9. a characteristic of a sound stimulus that can be arranged on a scale from low to high
- 12. also known as mental activity, describes the acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of knowledge
- 14. serves as a temporary storehouse that can hold and combine information from your phonological loop, your visuospatial sketchpad, and long-term memory
- 16. the awareness that people have about the outside world and about their perceptions, images, thoughts, memories, and feelings
- 17. the logical interpretations and conclusions that were never part of the original stimulus material
- 19. a memory unit that consists of several components that are strongly associated with one another
- 20. phenomenon that says you will remember more information if you try to relate that information to yourself
- 22. a method that will always produce a solution to the problem, although the process can sometimes be inefficient
- 24. visible movements of any part of your body, which you use to communicate
- 26. a concentration of mental activity that allows you to take in a limited portion of the vast stream of information available from both your sensory world and your memory
- 27. a general rule that is usually correct