Memories and Cognition
Memory pt. 2
How we Remember
Accuracy/Inaccuracy in Memory and Cognition
Miscellaneous
100

The ability to store and retrieve information over time...

What is Memory

100

The place where small amounts of information can be kept for more than a few seconds, but less than one minute...

What is short-term memory

100

When we continue to learn even after we think we know the information perfectly...this is...

What is overlearning

100

The tendency for people to be too certain about their ability to remember events and make judgements...this is also common in eyewitnesses to crimes...

What is overconfidence

100

The University Prof. Englund attended for undergrad and grad school...

What is Central Washington University 

200

The process of acquiring and using knowledge...

What is cognition

200

Visual sensory memory, duration is less than one second...AND....auditory sensory memory, duration is several sections

What are iconic AND echoic memory

200

The process of reactivating information that has been stored in memory...

What is retrieval
200

Errors in memory that occur when new information influences existing memories...

What is the misinformation effect

200

One of the most important neurotransmitters in memory...secreted during stress...may aid memory...

What is glutamate

300

The cognitive approach which became dominant in psychology in the 1960s was fueled by the creation of...

What are electronic computers
300

Encoding, storage, and retrieval are all considered...

What are memory processes
300

Material is better remembered if it is linked to thoughts about the self...this is...

What is the self-reference effect

300

The tendency to verify and confirm our existing memories rather than to challenge and disconfirm them...this is...

What is confirmation bias

300

Prof. Englund's favorite area of study in the psychology field...

What is abnormal psychology
400

This type of memory requires conscious awareness...

What is explicit memory

400

Repeating information mentally or out loud with the goal of keeping it in memory...this is...

What is maintenance rehearsal

400

Patterns of knowledge in long-term memory that help us organize information 

What are schemas

400

The tendency to think about and experience events according to "what might have been"...this is....

What is counterfactual thinking

400

Why did Prof. Englund go to prison? 

What was for a field trip

500

The brief storage of sensory information, giving the brain time to process incoming sensations is...

What is sensory memory

500

This measure involves bringing previously learned material from memory...this may be used through an in class essay...

What is recall

500

People better retrieve items at the beginning and end of a list than items in the middle...this is called...

What is the serial position effect

500

When we base judgements on information that seems to match our expectations, and ignore potentially more relevant statistical information...this is called...

What is representativeness

500

The inability to retrieve events that occurred before a given time

What is retrograde amnesia

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