Memory: How It Functions and Parts of the Brain
This involves the input of information into the memory system.
What is Encoding?
The inability to remember new information after the point of trauma
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
Organizing information into manageable bits.
For example. Mark remembering a 10's phone number by splitting it up into three parts.
What is Chunking?
The storage of brief sensory events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes
What is Sensory Memory?
In Home Alone, Kevin's family was traveling to this location.
Where is Paris, France?
The delay in reaction time between automatic and controlled processing of information
What is the Stroop Effect?
The effects of misinformation from external sources which leads to the creation of false memories
What is Suggestibility?
The tendency to think an outcome was inevitable after the fact it already happened!
What is Hindsight Bias?
Getting the information out of memory and back into awareness.
What is Retrieval?
Ralphie wanted this for Christmas in "A Christmas Story."
What is a Red Ryder BB Gun?
"You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!"
The encoding of words and their meanings; attaching meaning to information makes it easier to recall later
What is Semantic Encoding?
According to Schacter (2001), transience, suggestibility, and persistence are examples of these types of memory errors.
What are the 7 Sins of Memory?
Memories that are NOT part of our consciousness, rather they are formed through behaviors.
Ex. Riding a bike!
What are Implicit Memories?
When strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories and weaker emotional experiences form weaker memories.
What is Arousal Theory?
In "The Twelve Days of Christmas," you would have received this on the seventh day.
What are Seven Swans A-Swimming?
Memories of facts and events we can consciously remember and recall are considered:
What are Explicit (Declarative) Memories?
Name three types of ways to study effectively.
What are
1) elaborate rehearsal
2) the self-reference effect
3) don't forget the forgetting curve
4) rehearse
5) Beware of interference
6) keep moving
7) get enough sleep
8) make mnemonic devices
The process of bringing up of old memories.
What is Reconstruction?
Remembering information about events we have personally experienced.
What is Episodic Memory?
The names of Santa's reindeer!
Who are
1. Dasher
2. Dancer
3. Prancer
4. Vixen
5. Comet
6. Cupid
7. Donner
8. Blitzen
9. Rudolph (The most famous of them all)
If part of one area of the brain involved in memory is damaged, another part of the same area can take over that memory function.
What is the Equipotentiality Hypothesis?
When old information hinders the recall of newly learned information.
What is Proactive Interference?
The transfer of information from short-term memory to long-term memory.
What is Memory Consolidation?
According to the model from these psychologists, in order for memory to go into storage, it must pass through sensory memory, short-term memory, then to long-term memory.
What is the A-S Model [of Human Memory]?
The original Latin meaning of the French word "Noel."
What is Birth?