Creative Writing Flashcards
A kind of nametag for things in any language. It
is the word that refers to people, places, objects, or even
abstract ideas.
Noun
What are the different types of nouns?
Proper
Common
Concrete
Abstract
Countable
Uncountable
Collective
Compound
Possessive
Gerund
What are the different parts of speech?
Noun
Pronoun
Verb
Adverb
Adjective
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection
Determiners
It refers to a process through which we discover the objects that exist in the world around us.
Perception
Three stages of perceiving and remembering
Sensory
Perceptual
Classification
The features (size, shape, material, function, etc.) of the object are identified and analyzed.
The Sensory Stage
A phenomenon that dictates what object or information takes priority when perceived with other objects or items of information
We pay attention to what is FAMILIAR or IMPORTANT to us
Selectivity
The quality of being particularly noticeable or important; prominence. (What attracts us the most)
Salience
WHAT AFFECTS OUR PERCEPTION?
SALIENCE
NEEDS and INTERESTS
EXPECTATIONS
What are the different types of imagery?
Visual
Olfactory
Auditory
Gustatory
Tactile
Information obtained in the first stage is organized and synthesized.
The Perceptual Stage
What is it called we tend to think that things that are close together go together.
Proximity
This describes the phenomenon that people weigh what they see/learn first more heavily
Primacy
This explains the phenomenon that people give more weight to the last thing they see or hear.
Recency
The object is categorized according to features that make it similar to or different from other objects.
The Classification Stage
They claim that Individual sensations may be put together and combined with similar sensations associated with meaningful experiences in the past.
STRUCTURALISTS
Our brain has the capability to organize sensory information and give us whole figures that are “more than the sum of the parts.”
COGNITIVISTS
The basic component of information processing
SENSORY MEMORIES
Memory that lasts up to 4 seconds
Echoic Memory
Memory that lasts up to 1 seconds
Iconic Memory
What are the 3 types of memories?
Sensory Memory
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory
It is the process of taking single items and grouping them on the basis of similarity or some organizing principle or combining them into larger patterns based on the information stored in long-term memory.
FIVE (5) to NINE (9)
“chunks of information”
Chunking
What is the ideal number of items that could be stored in and retrieved (short-term memory)
7
Seven days of creation
Seven ages of man
Seven deadly sins
Seven days a week
Seven levels of hell
Seven wonders of the world
