Where Are My Keys?
On average, how many items can your short-term memory hold?
Retrieve information which you learned at an earlier time
What is recall
Strategies such as creating an acronym or a rhyme to help you remember information easier
What are mnemonics
Step by step directions which lead you to the solution to a problem
What is an algorithm
Things that "push our buttons" and cause stress
What are stressors
Freudian idea that your brain has a defense mechanism which hides anxiety-inducing memories from you consciousness
What is repression
How much information can you long-term memory hold?
What is unlimited or infinite
Organizing information into familiar groups to make the information more manageable and easier to remember
What is chunking
Strategy to solve a problem which includes the trial and error technique
What is a heuristic
These are universal when it comes to emotions
What are facial expressions
The inability to form new memories or retrieve past information are both types of what
What is amnesia
(anterograde=no new memories)
(retrograde=no past memories)
Doing this at night can help you remember the information you studied for the test the next day
What is sleep
A vivid emotionally significant memory
What is a flashbulb memory
Humans tend to overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge because we are ______
What is overconfident
When you are told you cannot sit with a group of people at lunch
What is ostracism
What we fail to ___________ we will never remember
What is encode
Practicing information over and over again
What is maintenance rehearsal
Replaying a memory may lead you to alter that memory. The process or replaying, adding new information, then saving the "new" memory
What is reconsolidation
When your ability to talk or understand language is impaired. Usually the damage is on the left side of your brain
What is aphasia
The need for us to build relationships and feel part of a group
What is affiliation needs
Henry Molaison has this part of his brain operated on which made him unable to form new memories
What is the hippocampus
The activation of a particular association in memory
What is priming
When misleading information has altered one's memory of an event
What is the misinformation effect
The way a problem is presented or worded can greatly impact your decisions and judgements
What is framing
Dave is always wanting to talk about himself and be the center of attention while caring very little about anyone else's "boring" lives
What is narcissism