Glossary Rest

Question 1

verbal comprehension

Answer 1

the receptive ability to comprehend written and spoken linguistic input, such as words, sen-tences, and paragraphs

Question 2

verbal fluency

Answer 2

the expressive ability to produce linguistic output

Question 3

verb phrase

Answer 3

syntactic structure that contains at least one verb and whatever the verb acts on, if anything

Question 4

viewer-centered representation

Answer 4

an individual stores the way the object looks to him or her

Question 5

vigilance

Answer 5

refers to a person’s ability to attend to a field of stimulation over a prolonged period, during which the person seeks to detect the appearance of a particular tar-get stimulus of interest

Question 6

visuospatial sketchpad

Answer 6

briefly holds some visual images

Question 7

well-structured problems

Answer 7

problems that have well-defined paths to solution

Question 8

word-superiority effect

Answer 8

letters are read more easily when they are embedded in words than when they are presented either in isolation or with letters that do not form words

Question 9

working memory

Answer 9

holds only the most recently activated por-tion of long-term memory, and it moves these activated elements into and out of brief, temporary memory storage