Chapter 2 Reinforcement Activity Crossword

Certain glial cells--star-shaped ones known as _____--seem to be intimately involved in learning and memory.
The first step in the process of memory is _____, which is required for something to continue to working memory.
Continually practicing information and skills acquired and gradually becoming able to use what you've learned quickly, effortlessly, and automatically.
Working memory also seems to include some sort of supervisory component--which many theorist call a _____--that focuses attention, oversees the flow of information through the memory system, selects and controls voluntary behaviors, and inhibits counterproductive thoughts and actions.
A certain amount of information that learners must simultaneously think about, along with certain ways that they must think about it, in order to make sense of and remember what they’re studying.
The specific things individuals do mentally as they try to interpret and remember what they see, hear and study.
A theoretical perspective that focuses on the mental processes underlying learning and behavior, including perception, memory, and reasoning.
Significant revision of one’s existing beliefs about a topic, enabling new and discrepant information to be better understood and explained.
Meaningfully learned and well-integrated knowledge about a topic, including many logical connections among specific concepts and ideas.
This tendency to look for what one thinks is true and to ignore evidence to the contrary is known as _____.
Neurological process in which newly acquired knowledge is firmed up in the brain; often takes several hours, sometimes even longer.
In an effort to make sense of their experiences, learners use many separate tidbits of information to create a general understanding, interpretation, or recollection of some aspect of their world.
Theoretical perspective in which learning and behavior are described and explained in terms of stimulus-response relationships.
Theoretical perspective that focuses on how people’s general physical, social, and/or cultural surroundings support their learning, development, and behavior.
Complex thinking, learning, and knowledge are located primarily in the upper and outer parts of the brain collectively known as the _____, which rests on the top and sides of the brain like a thick, bumpy toupee.
Knowledge stored in long-term memory may gradually weaken overtime and eventually disappear altogether, especially if it isn’t used very often.
knowledge about what and how things are and includes facts, figures, and events
A learner changes or adds to incoming information in some way in order to remember it more easily.
A learner’s existing knowledge about specific topics and the world in general.
A long-term change in mental representations or associations due to experience.
When learners intentionally engage in certain cognitive processes to help them reach their goal of learning and remembering something, they’re using a _____.
Where learners store general knowledge and beliefs about the world, recollections of past experiences, and information learned in school.
Involves recognizing a relationship between new information and something previously stored in long-term memory.
Refers to a learners ability to mentally “save“ newly acquired information and behaviors.
Process of reminding learners of things they already know relative to a new topic.
Knowledge about how to do things.