Cognitive Processes Quiz

All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

Thinking about thinking.

The cognitive abilities and processes that allow humans to plan or inhibit their actions.

A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

A mental image or best example of a category.

Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information.

Image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space. Tolman study.

A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem.

A rule-of-thumb problem-solving strategy.

Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.

Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information.

The belief that the chances of something happening with a fixed probability become higher or lower as the process is repeated.

A tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions.

Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.

The bias in which people's subjective confidence in their decision making is greater than their objective accuracy.

A framing effect in which people make decisions about a current situation based on what they have previously invested in the situation.

A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.

The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.

Expands the number of possible problem solutions (creative thinking that diverges in different directions).

A type of critical thinking in which one evaluates existing possible solutions to a problem to choose the best one.

Expertise, imaginative thinking skills, venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, and creative environment.

A base of knowledge.

Seeing things in new ways.

Focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events.

The ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input

Surrounding self with other creative people.

Driven by interest and passion rather than money or deadlines.

Ability to concentrate on one voice amongst a crowd.

The tendency to read the words instead of saying the color of ink.

When we encode its sound.

Thinking about the physical appearance of words to be learnt.

Thinking about the meaning of words to be learnt.

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.

The decision-making bias that results from the way a decision, question, or problem is worded.

Turning sensory information into a form the brain can use.

holding onto information for some period of time (making a memory).

Getting information out storage.

A brief recording of sensory information before it is passed to short-term memory.

Visual sensory memory.

Auditory sensory memory.

A limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20 to 30 seconds. Can retain about 7 objects.

The part of working memory that holds and processes verbal and auditory information.

The part of working memory that directs attention and processing.

Deals with/processes visual information.

The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.

The relatively permanent storage of information.

Knowledge HOW TO do something. (Procedural)

Writing that tells how to do something.

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare".

Knowing something is TRUE.

A network of associated facts and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world.

The collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place.

Remembering to do things in the future.

The memory for events and facts related to one's personal life story.

Seeks new experiences, tolerates the uncertain.

Can yield short term results, but things are learned quickly are also forgetting quickly.

Better to practice retrieval (test yourself) than just simply reading notes over and over.