Across
- 1. Physical object you see in your environment
- 5. State you are in after you complete you goal
- 7. Pleasant stimuli is remember more than unpleasant stimuli
- 11. memory Phenomenon that people usually have a rich memory of very important world events (9/11, JFK assassination). These memories are usually not as accurate as people think they are
- 14. A goal that does not have an exact steps to solving it
- 15. Listening and trying to comprehend two messages at once. People can only efficiently listen to one message at a time
- 16. homographs False friends- words in two different languages that sound similar but do not mean the same thing
- 17. Mental shortcut
- 19. Recognizing a word by sounding out all of it’s parts
- 23. Recognizing a word by only using vision
- 25. Whole > sum of its parts. Humans often organize what they see into one thing instead of separating all of it into parts.
- 27. When something that was previously learned interferes with the learning of new material
- 29. A mental representation of a physical environment and it’s surroundings
- 30. Your mental representation of categories and the relationships between them
Down
- 2. Learning something over a number of spaced increments of time. More effective way of remembering material than massed learning
- 3. The most average, ideal representation of a item or category
- 4. Using real life examples to learn something. Example: using baking to learn about fractions
- 6. Doing the next immediate thing that will get you to your goal
- 8. Theoretical perspective that says an individual’s response is a direct reaction to an environmental stimulus
- 9. State you are in before you complete your goal
- 10. Bilingual people are faster at naming cognates than non-cognates
- 12. The tendency to extend the boundaries of our mental representative of a picture. Example: seeing trees behind a fence even though they were not in the picture you saw.
- 13. It is easier to recall stimuli if you are in the same mood/environment in which you learned the stimuli in
- 18. Trying to do two things at once. Results in ability to correctly and efficiently complete both tasks to decrease
- 20. Your perception and past experiences can influence how you interpret your environment
- 21. Only paying attention to information that agrees with your opinions
- 22. A mental representation of an object that looks like the physical object
- 24. Using our own body motions to represent abstract thoughts. Some problems are better solved when we can move our bodies to solve it.
- 26. The ability to recall the first items of a list better than items in the middle of the list
- 28. Repeating something you want to remember over and over again