Heuristic any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be perfect, but is nevertheless sufficient for reaching an immediate, short-term goal or approximation.
Fallacy the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument.
Encoding the act of getting information into our memory system through automatic or effortful processing.
Shallow Processing the only encoding of physical qualities of something such as how the word looked rather than what it meant.
Forgetting the apparent loss or modification of information already encoded and stored in an individual's short or long-term memory.
Recall the act of retrieving information or events from the past while lacking a specific cue to help in retrieving the information.
Language Acquisition humans acquiring the capacity to perceive and comprehend language.
Sensory Memory a very brief memory that allows people to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimulus has ceased. (1st stage of memory).
State-dependent Memory a phenomenon where people are more likely to retrieve memories that were created in similar states of consciousness.
Eidetic Memory the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision for a brief period after seeing it only once, and without using a mnemonic device.