Cognition/Memory AP vocab review quiz

The tendency to hold onto a belief even when the belief has been discredited.

• Confirmation bias
• belief perserverance
• divergent thinking

The smallest unit of language that has meaning.

• morpheme
• phoneme
• syllable

a tendency to estimate the probability of certain effects based on how readily they come to mind.  

• availability heuristic
• belief perserverance
• representative heuristic

Unable to recognize novel (new) uses for an object because we are so familiar with its common use. 

• proactive interference
• algorithm
• functional fixedness

Problem solving strategy that involves step-by-step procedure.  (formulas)

• heuristic
• algorithm
• insight learning

Identifying something familiar through matching or multiple choice

• recognition
• recall
• mood congruence

Encoding of picture images

• automatic processing
• chunking
• visual encoding

grouping information into meaningful units which increases the capacity of STM.

• serial position effect
• chunking
• selective attention

Memory of facts and experiences that one consciously knows and can verbalize.

• explicit memory
• implicit memory
• retrieval

The retention of encoded information over time.

• storage
• heuristic
• effortful processing