AP Psych Review - Unit VII - Cognition

Inability to perceive a new use for an object associated with a different purpose

• Mental set
• Functional Fixedness
• Bias

A rule of thumb

• Schema
• Script
• Algorithm
• Heuristic

Problem-solving procedures or formulas that guarantee a correct outcome

• Schema
• Script
• Algorithm
• Heuristic

A knowledge cluster 

• Script
• Schema
• Algorithm
• Heuristic

The rules of language

• Grammer
• Morphemes
• Language acquistion
• Script

Techniques used to improve memory.

• Bias
• Persistence
• Mnemonic
• Transience

Part of LTM that stores memories of how things are done.

• Declarative memory
• Acoustic memory
  Elaborative memory
• Acoustic memory
• Procedural memory

Holds about 7 items at a time

• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Sensory memory

Phonemes and morphemes refer to

• elements of telegraphic speech

• basic elements of language

• basic elements of concepts

• memories stored in the LTM

Your sensory memory is the quickest and is split into two parts, what you hear and what you see. These are called...

• Ego and Id

• visual-spatial

• echoic and iconic

• audio and myopic